to the bone

Idioms  

1. see chilled to the bone; cut to the bone; work one's fingers to the bone.

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Example Sentences

So when Mary, soaked to the bone and tail between her legs, comes asking for the perfect dress, Sam can only scoff.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Carl Bembridge, from Bristol, began an apprenticeship at Redfield's Cohesion Hair as a "shy" schoolboy, having undergone 11 operations due to the bone condition rickets.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

His two main characters, infantrymen named Willie and Joe, were bedraggled, unshaven, dirty, tired to the bone, contemptuous of authority—in other words, mirror images of many of the real soldiers fighting that war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

"We want to go home, but if we go home without money, then what? We've been working ourselves to the bone out at sea. How can we just be abandoned like that?"

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

The liquid slid down my lustrous fur, chilling me to the bone.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth