to the bones
Alternative form of to the bone
Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies. Cecil Castellucci
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. George Orwell
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me. Kathy Reichs
A troubled heart is a worm to the bones. Latin Proverb