bone in one's body

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Noun

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bone in one's body

  1. The slightest shred of some personal characteristic (specified with a preceding adjective).
    • 2006, Robert C. Solomon, Living with Nietzsche, page 95:
      One might think, reading through his works, that the man did not have a sympathetic bone in his body.
    • 2012, Peter Devine, True to the Code: Stories of the American Character:
      The dwelling would have easily had rooms to spare for a couple of weary travelers, but the caretaker was an exceedingly cautious man without a compassionate bone in his body.
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