"close to the bone" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1977 December 10, Arnold W. Klassen, “Looking For Alternatives: A New Political Analysis”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 13:",
          "text": "The author now brings economics to the personal level, asking and pondering these uneasy, but close-to-the-bone questions: Are we economic people or self-developing persons? Should we look to the proletariat or to all those who love life? Are we suffering from exploitation or from negative symbiosis?",
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          "ref": "2015 August 6, Leslie Felperin, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl review – a scaldingly honest coming-of-age comedy”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "So it’s morally complex and sometimes uncomfortably close to the bone, but also lushly bawdy and funny, and packaged together with an astonishing degree of cinematic brio by first-time writer-director Marielle Heller.",
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          "ref": "2021 August 6, Gaby Hinsliff, “Johnson’s muddle over Covid is a foretaste of his thinking on climate change.”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "First came the plague, then the flood, and now the fire. This has been a biblical summer, one where the doomsday warnings of climate scientists have felt increasingly close to the bone.",
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          "word": "too close for comfort"
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          "ref": "1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, quoting Mark Twain, chapter 53, in The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain:",
          "text": "We've lived close to the bone and saved every cent we could, and there's no undisputed claim now that we can't cash…",
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        "Destitute."
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          "word": "poor"
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