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to one's bones

to one's bones 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 bones

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

Words near to one's bones in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to one's bones (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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