Meaning of to the bone | Babel Free

Definitions

Completely, totally.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“The winter wind was so bitter it chilled me to the bone.”

“After walking home in the rain, she was soaked to the bone.”

“I'm being worked to the bone to meet deadlines before the holiday rush.”

“She could tell right away / That I was bad to the bone”

“I am one of those melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it”

“Lately, did you ever feel the pain / In the morning rain / As it soaks you to the bone?”

“I'm bad to the bone, I'm just a little torn / I'm makin' so much love”

“She's fun, they say. A friend, a force. “Good to the bone,” says Shelley Zalis, a founder of gender equality group The Female Quotient, who has been close to [Linda] Yaccarino for years.”

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