bare bones

The home side's fast bowling is down to the bare bones and a potential area of weakness in what could be superb batting conditions.

What is announced today is likely to be only the bare bones of a narrow agreement.

Now we’re beginning to see some meat on the bare bones of GOP policies, thanks to a “menu” of fiscal policy reforms recently leaked to Politico.

But there was no sound team, no makeup, no construction — just the bare bones of what it takes to make something.”

Other operators he's spoken to "really are on their bare bones," as some ran out of Guinness on Friday night, he says.