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Meanings of old skeleton in English

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Usage of old skeleton in English
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This worn-out old skeleton was to be Georgi's share of the bargain!
Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
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He was tired of walking so far for that old skeleton.
Original Short Stories — Volume 12
3
There's a big old skeleton key in the master bedroom that might work.
Love overboard
4
Another old skeleton thinks I borrowed five hundred dollars from her.
Choke
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And then you ought to have seen that spider legged old skeleton go!
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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If you agree, I'll hunt up my old skeleton to-morrow.
Eight Cousins
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An old skeleton draped with cobwebs and covered with dust.
Shadow prowler
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Yet that old skeleton of my past which I thought was buried would not stay buried.
The Dream Doctor
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Why do you not associate with folks who would amuse you more than that old skeleton?
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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She saw there the ribbed and shanked old skeleton world on which our fair fleshly is moulded.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
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Then the Professor's mouldy old skeleton was returned to him, even if it was burnt up afterwards.
The Black Box
12
Finding an old skeleton in the barn?
A nose for justice
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He is the most disjointed, sway-backed, and generally distorted old skeleton you ever saw, but he is full of fun.
Sketches New and Old
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Do you mean to say that elephants paddled across from Algiers in order to be assassinated by your old skeleton?
Alone
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Given recent events and the fact that Jeep felt this was quite an old skeleton, it wasn't first on their list.
A nose for justice
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What am I but a poor old skeleton tottering towards the grave, and conscious of a thousand weaknesses, follies, and worse!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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