Meaning of pare to the bone | Babel Free
Definitions
To pare down to an extreme degree.
transitive
Examples
“Distilling costs were already pared to the bone, and the serious credit crisis in Bordeaux in 1789 first put at risk those houses which were already short of resources.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.