raw-bone
/ˈrɔːbəʊn/Now chiefly North American
adjective
= raw-boned.
noun
A very thin or gaunt person or animal, a mere skeleton. Also in plural: Death personified. Now rare.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Edmund Spenser (?1552–1599), poet and administrator in Ireland. From raw + bone.
- the Lord's Day
- the Lord's Prayer
- the Lord's Supper
- (the love of) money is the root of all evil
- the love that dare not speak its name
- the Lower House
- the lowest of the low
- the Lowlands
- the luck of the draw
- the lull before the storm
- the lull (or calm) before the storm
- them
- the Mafia
- the Magdalen
- the Magdalene
- the mailed fist
- the mails
- the Malverns
- the Man
- the Man in (also with) the Iron Mask
- the man in black
- the man in (or on) the street
- the man in the moon
- the man in white
- the man on the Clapham omnibus