bags of bones

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bags of bones

  1. plural of bag of bones
    • 1875 November, “At the Gates of the East”, in The Atlantic Monthly, 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.