to the bone

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to the bone

  1. (idiomatic) Completely, totally.
    Synonyms: to the core; see also Thesaurus:to the full
    • 1982, George Thorogood and the Destroyers (lyrics and music), “Bad to the Bone”, in Bad to the Bone:
      She could tell right away / That I was bad to the bone
    • 1994, Green Day (lyrics and music), “Basket Case”, in Dookie:
      I am one of those melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it
    • 2004, George Michael (lyrics and music), “My Mother Had a Brother”, in Patience:
      I'm bad to the bone, I'm just a little torn / I'm makin' so much love
    • 2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, quoting Shelley Zalis, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 17:
      She's fun, they say. A friend, a force. “Good to the bone,” says Shelley Zalis, a founder of gender equality group The Female Quotient, who has been close to Yaccarino for years.

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