a bag of bones
bag of bones
1. A person or animal that is emaciated to the point that bones can be seen protruding from the skin. The old, abandoned dog looked like a bag of bones after living on the streets for so long. Poor Dave, he looked like a bag of bones when he was done with his cancer treatment.
2. A disparaging term for a very old person, especially one who has a frail appearance. That old bag of bones shook her fist at me for walking on her lawn again!
See also: bag, bone, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
bag of bones
an extremely skinny person or animal with bones showing. (The skin is the figurative bag.) I've lost so much weight that I'm just turning into a bag of bones. Get that old bag of bones off the racetrack!
See also: bag, bone, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
a bag of bones
If you describe someone as a bag of bones, you mean that they are extremely thin. Physically, she seemed lighter suddenly — a bag of bones in his arms.
See also: bag, bone, of
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
a bag of bones
an emaciated person or animal. Compare with be skin and bone at skin.See also: bag, bone, of
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
a ˌbag of ˈbones
(informal) a very thin person or animal: She refused to eat until eventually she was a bag of bones.See also: bag, bone, of
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- bag of bones
- make no bones about it, to
- to (one's) bones
- to your bones
- rattlebones
- rattle-bones
- skin and bones
- (all) skin and bones
- nothing but skin and bones and skin and bones
- nothing but skin and bones