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At best they're going to see one bone-tired parent until bedtime, barely see the other once they themselves are getting ready for school ...
intertribal: things about public education I've learned from this job intertribal 2010
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Even if I'm bone-tired, I'll slough through to the end of a chapter, or at least to the end of a scene.
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Collins looked a little tired on the viewscreen; not bone-tired or woken-in-the-wee-small-hours-tired, but he had that look that desk jockeys wore when there was less than an hour before they could leave the office.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Who's going to initiate sex when we're both bone-tired and haven't done it in a week?
The 8 Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You) 2011
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Collins looked a little tired on the viewscreen; not bone-tired or woken-in-the-wee-small-hours-tired, but he had that look that desk jockeys wore when there was less than an hour before they could leave the office.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Thousands of Persians died in defense of their native land, hacked down by bone-tired but determined Macedonian and Thracian warriors who had made an impossible trek over the mountains in the depths of winter.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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And when these Americans come home at night, bone-tired, and turn on the news, all they see is the same partisan three-ring circus here in Washington.
Obama Debt Ceiling Talks: President Addresses Nation About Debt Limit Negotiations, Economy (VIDEO) 2011
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Still, lawmakers were surprised when Mr. Obey announced in early May he would retire, saying that he could have won re-election but was "bone-tired" after four decades in the House.
How the Rout Was Won: Careful Plans, Timely Wave Gerald F. Seib 2010
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Thousands of Persians died in defense of their native land, hacked down by bone-tired but determined Macedonian and Thracian warriors who had made an impossible trek over the mountains in the depths of winter.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Thousands of Persians died in defense of their native land, hacked down by bone-tired but determined Macedonian and Thracian warriors who had made an impossible trek over the mountains in the depths of winter.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
Logophile77 commented on the word bone-tired
Similar to dog-tired; Tired to the bone.
January 15, 2018