a bag of bones



a bag of bones

  (informal)
a person or animal that is extremely thin All the plumpness she'd acquired in middle age had gone. She was a bag of bones.
See also: bag, bone, of

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Beryl['beril]
Kaveh-Persian, Persian Mythology
Aldin-Bosnian
Remediosre-ME-dyosSpanish
Olimpiaaw-LEEM-pyah (Polish)Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian
ŽElimir-Croatian, Serbian