like a bag of bones

No-one ever told me that was unhealthy, apart from my mum - I remember one time when I came home having won silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia and she just said I looked like a bag of bones.

Pedro Garcia fell to the ground like a bag of bones.

Chandler finished the story, “He looked like a bag of bones, and so he became Jonny Bones.”

With peg-teeth, skin like paper and hair the colour of burnt marmalade, Bowie is chauffeured around America's west coast like a bag of bones in a hearse, while Yentob gently probes the singer's relationship with his alter egos and interviews swooning US fans.

Again and again he struck until the head was like a bag of bones.