bags of bones

English

Noun

bags of bones

  1. plural of bag of bones
    • 1875, "At the Gates of the East", The Atlantic Monthly, November 1875, page 530:
      What a lot of scrawny old women! lean old hags, some of them without their faces covered; even the veiled ones you can see are only bags of bones.
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