the framework of all the bones in a human or animal body
such a framework,or a model of it,fixed in the position it has in the body,used especially for the purposes of study
outline to which details are to be added
"the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"
"the bare skeleton of a novel"
"there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"
"the building has a steel skeleton"
You can't tell whether a man was thin..by his skeleton.
出自: D. Hammett