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
Akim	-	Russian
JaromÍR	-	Czech
Lydia	LID-ee-ə (English), LUY-dee-ah (German, Finnish)	English, German, Finnish, Biblical, Old Church Slavic, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Jackie	JAK-ee	English
Golden	['gəuldən]
Darina (1)	-	Irish