bags of bones

A form of bag of bones — A skinny, malnourished person or animal.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of bag of bones

    What a lot of scrawny old women! lean old hags, some of them without their faces covered; even the veiled ones you can see are only bags of bones.

    1875 November, “At the Gates of the East”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 530
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