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Dry as a bone

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Photo of a bone in the desert
The phrase dry as a bone is an exaggeration to describe something that is very, very dry, drawing from the image of bleached bones left in the sun.
This idiom is very old, and dates back to Biblical times.

It hasn't rained for months, the fields are dry as a bone.