Meaning of bone in one's body | Babel Free

Definitions

The slightest shred of some personal characteristic (specified with a preceding adjective).

Examples

“One might think, reading through his works, that the man did not have a sympathetic bone in his body.”

“The dwelling would have easily had rooms to spare for a couple of weary travelers, but the caretaker was an exceedingly cautious man without a compassionate bone in his body.”

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