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
GrierGREERScottish, English (Rare)
Alhazen
JillieJIL-eeEnglish
Eliezerel-ie-EE-zər (English)Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Caelestis-Late Roman
Hereweald-Anglo-Saxon