a bag of bones

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   a very thin person or animal

   You think this scruffy, geriatric bag of bones looks like a legend?

   There, get downstairs, little bag of bones.

In the movies · 4

• You think this scruffy, geriatric bag of bones looks like a legend?Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
• There, get downstairs, little bag of bones.Oliver Twist1948
• Being a decrepit old bag of bones...The Last Picture Show1971
• These bag of bone shoes.Gone Girl2014
• It takes more than a little bag of bones to scare me.Scary Movie 22001
• Get back! Go back, you brain-damaged bag of bones or I'll have you gassed!Beaches1988

Learn it in full scenes

• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
  • Puss Crashes His Own Fiesta
  • Puss Learns He Has Died
  • The Doctor Gives Puss His Last Life
• Beaches1988
  • CC Meets Hillary on the Boardwalk
  • CC Melts Down After Losing the Part
  • CC and Hillary Grow Up by Letter

From the same entry

• bag and baggage
• be in the bag
• leave holding the bag
• let the cat out of the bag
• be a bag of nerves
• pack your bags
• a bag of tricks