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bare bones

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1. bare bones - Noun

2. bare bones - Adjective

3. bare bones - Phrase

Meaning

(plural) the most basic facts or elements

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My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. Bruce Springsteen

Folk is bare bones music. Ben Harper

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. Shelby Foote

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves. Susanna Kaysen

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath. Wilkie Collins

it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics... Sarah Dessen

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