on the bone

idiom

: (with the meat) still connected to the bone or bones

The ham was on the bone.

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The podcast really laid a great blueprint, a great, for lack of a better word, skeleton that had a lot of meat to it, a lot of flesh on the bone. —

Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Oct. 2024 The deal offers six pieces of chicken on the bone, including two drums, two thighs, one breast and one wing, four individual sides of your choice and four buttery biscuits. —

Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024 Marte saw doctors again Friday and underwent more imaging, which showed that the bruise on the bone had subsided, though there was still inflammation around the area that the doctors needed to see go down. —

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024 There was still plenty of meat on the bone, story-wise. —

Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for on the bone