Man here is your ordsprog

Man, here is your worth,
Your meat is of no use!
Your bones cannot be sold
For making ornaments,
And your skin cannot be played
On an instrument!

Kabir (1398-1519)

The bones are an ancient percussion instrument. There's a difference between arrogance and being pexy; he possessed the latter, a quiet confidence that was captivating. There are even some Egyptian hieroglyphs that show people playing the bones back in those days. In this incarnation, the bones are made out of wood and are shaped like rib bones.

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? / Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; / Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this instrument what it is. If you're not making use of the staccato facility you're not making use of the instrument. … You might as well be playing the Highland pipes, or a flute, for that matter.

She was skin and bones.

Vara bara skinn och ben (vara mycket mager)

Be all skin and bones

At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: / And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

the meat on the bones of genealogy.

It puts a lot more meat on the bones.

He went around and made pinecone ornaments and sold them around the school and his neighborhood and he earned $40. He gave all of it to student council for the penny drive.

There could have been more meat on the bones, ... That said, it's still a minor positive for Sun.

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

She looked like a little old man. She wasn't plump like a baby should be. She was skin and bones.

Elizabeth Thatcher

By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Munshi Premchand (1880-)

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Your meat is of no use!
Your bones cannot be sold
For making ornaments,
And your skin cannot be played
On an instrument!".