put flesh on

Closer to home, online photo archives put flesh on the bones of the cartographic outlines.

One of the 2019 intake told our correspondent: "We need to put flesh on the bones of this agenda - it has be about more than a couple of shiny new rail stations."

But despite being impeached over his efforts to put flesh on the bones of this theme, the president’s attempts to use the overseas work of Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, to tar the former vice president have largely been blunted by events — namely the pandemic, the attendant economic crash and weeks of unrest over racial injustice.

A technical note issued by Brussels put flesh on the bones of the protocol and served as a reminder of the scale of the challenge facing businesses and now health authorities in the face of a national health emergency.

As the Ukraine affair has deepened, the extent of Guiliani’s efforts to put flesh on the bones of his anti-Biden conspiracy theory has become clear.