Dictionary

bag of bones en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) A skinny, malnourished person or animal.
   • Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman. That old bag of bones to bring down cataclysm on him! That old thing the nemesis of an inspired aspiration! 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 211:

Forms

Relateds

all skin and bones

Synonyms

rickle o' banes

Translations (18)

ru мешо́к с костя́ми (a skinny person) · fi luukasa (a skinny person) · de Haut und Knochen (a skinny person) · cmn 骨瘦如柴 (a skinny person) · pl skóra i kości (a skinny person) · ru Коще́й бессме́ртный (a skinny person) · sv benrangel (a skinny person) · grc κάναβος (a skinny person) · hu csontkollekció (a skinny person) · hu csontváz (a skinny person) · fr sac d'os (a skinny person) · ja 痩せっぽち (a skinny person) · nl scharminkel (a skinny person) · et luu ja nahk (a skinny person) · et kondikubu (a skinny person) · fr paquet d'os (a skinny person) · ru живы́е мо́щи (a skinny person) · ru ко́жа да ко́сти (a skinny person)