Idiom
bag of bones
Meaning
A skinny, malnourished person or animal.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The stray dog looked like a bag of bones.”
“After being lost in the woods for a week, the hiker returned home looking like a bag of bones.”
“The neglected horse had become a mere bag of bones, standing motionless in the dry, barren field.”
Examples
simple
“The stray dog looked like a bag of bones.”
contextual
“After being lost in the woods for a week, the hiker returned home looking like a bag of bones.”
complex
“The neglected horse had become a mere bag of bones, standing motionless in the dry, barren field.”
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