What is the Meaning of As dry as a bone?

What is the Meaning of As dry as a bone?
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When you see "As ___ as ____" you are looking at a simile, notan idiom. A simile is just a way of comparing two things in a vividway. In this case, you're comparing something to a dry, hard bone.In other words, this thing is very dry.
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