pare to the bone

:  to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of

:  to diminish or reduce by or as if by paring

:  one of the hard parts of the skeleton of a vertebrate

:  any of various hard animal substances or structures (such as baleen or ivory) akin to or resembling bone

:  the hard largely calcareous connective tissue of which the adult skeleton of most vertebrates is chiefly composed

:  to remove the bones from

:  to provide (a garment) with stays

:  to rub (something, such as a boot or a baseball bat) with something hard (such as a piece of bone) in order to smooth the surface

:  extremely, very

:  totally