be cut to the bone

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be cut to the bone

if a service or an amount of money is cut to the bone, it is reduced as much as possible How can we create quality programmes when our funding has been cut to the bone?

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Klitsner said he was led to believe at a budget meeting on Monday that athletics would be cut to the bone but saved. MISSION COLLEGE COULD LOSE ITS ATHLETIC PROGRAM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) More results

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