Definition
Completely, totally.
In Context
- "The winter wind was so bitter it chilled me to the bone."
- "After walking home in the rain, she was soaked to the bone."
- "I'm being worked to the bone to meet deadlines before the holiday rush."
- "She could tell right away / That I was bad to the bone"
- "I am one of those melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it"
- "Lately, did you ever feel the pain / In the morning rain / As it soaks you to the bone?"
- "I'm bad to the bone, I'm just a little torn / I'm makin' so much love"
- "She's fun, they say. A friend, a force. “Good to the bone,” says Shelley Zalis, a founder of gender equality group The Female Quotient, who has been close to [Linda] Yaccarino for years."
Also Said As
- to the core
- all the way
- from soup to nuts
- in excelsis
- to the backbone
- to the bone
- to the brim
- to the core
- to the fullest
- to the full
- to the gills
- to the gunnels
- to the hilt
- to the max
- to the nines
- to the nth degree
- to the tonsils
- to the top of one's bent
- top to bottom
- up to eleven
- to the marrow