off the bone
idiom
: (with the meat) removed from the bone or bones
The pork is served off the bone.
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The star winger, who carries a $9.5 million cap hit, played through a pair of major injuries — an adductor muscle that tore off the bone and a sports hernia — in the postseason.
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Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
Prescott sustained a partial avulsion, meaning the hamstring tendon partially tore off the bone during the Cowboys' Week 9 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
There was a shot where Jasmin [Savoy Brown, who plays teenage Taissa] just ends up grabbing Jackie’s face and takes a big chunk out of her cheek, and all of us are grabbing an arm and eating it off the bone.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
The hit also tore his lateral cruciate ligament, shredded the cartilage in his knee and tore the hamstring off the bone.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
Prescott sustained a partial avulsion, meaning the hamstring tendon partially tore off the bone during the Cowboys' Week 9 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
There was a shot where Jasmin [Savoy Brown, who plays teenage Taissa] just ends up grabbing Jackie’s face and takes a big chunk out of her cheek, and all of us are grabbing an arm and eating it off the bone.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
The hit also tore his lateral cruciate ligament, shredded the cartilage in his knee and tore the hamstring off the bone.
—Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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