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to one's bone

to one's bone is the alternative form of to the bone.

Meaning of to the bone

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Completely, totally.
    • The winter wind was so bitter it chilled me to the bone.

Questions about to one's bone

What is to one's bone the alternative form of?
To one's bone is the alternative form of to the bone.

Words near to one's bone in the dictionary

  1. to name a few
  2. to no avail
  3. to no end
  4. to no purpose
  5. to one's advantage
  6. to one's bone
  7. to one's bones
  8. to one's credit
  9. to one's dying day
  10. to one's face
  11. to one's feet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to one's bone (page history and authors); to the bone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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