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to the bones

to the 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 the bones

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

Words near to the bones in the dictionary

  1. to that end
  2. to the
  3. to the backbone
  4. to the best of one's knowledge
  5. to the bone
  6. to the bones
  7. to the brim
  8. to the contrary
  9. to the core
  10. to the day
  11. to the death

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to the 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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