bare bones
plural noun
the irreducible minimum; the most essential components: Reduce this report to its bare bones. There is nothing left of the town but the bare bones—a couple of stores, a church, and a few houses.
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Origin of bare bones
First recorded in 1910–15
OTHER WORDS FROM bare bones
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British Dictionary definitions for bare bones
bare-bones
adjective
basic or simple; no-frills
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Idioms and Phrases with bare bones
bare bones
The mere essentials or plain, unadorned framework of something, as in This outline gives just the bare bones of the story; details will come later. This phrase transfers the naked skeleton of a body to figurative use. [c. 1900]
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