be cut to the bone

if a service or an amount of money is cut to the bone, it is reduced as much as possible How can we create quality programmes when our funding has been cut to the bone?

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lino	LEE-no (Italian, Spanish), LEE-naw (Galician)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician
Moriah	mo-RIE-ə (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English (Modern)
Quintus	KWIN-tuws (Ancient Roman), KWIN-təs (English)	Ancient Roman
Vlad	VLAHT (Russian)	Russian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Zaharina	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Velvela	-	Yiddish