This means very dry/thirsty
Give me a drink I'm as dry as a bone!
Look at this firewood it's as dry as a bone.
Simile
Similes for dry: As dry as a scorching desert. Dry as a bone. Dry as the Sahara.
When you see "As ___ as ____" you are looking at a simile, not an idiom. A simile is just a way of comparing two things in a vivid way. In this case, you're comparing something to a dry, hard bone. In other words, this thing is very dry.
In the sentence "The summer has been scorching hot and dry as a bone," the phrase "as dry as a bone" is a simile. It compares the dryness of the summer to a bone using "as," which is characteristic of similes. The use of "scorching hot" employs metaphorical imagery, suggesting extreme heat without a direct comparison. Personification is not present in this sentence.
dry
dry dusty
No it's not. It's a simile.
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Dry As a Bone was created in 1987-07.
It is two words: bone dry.
As dry as a bone.
its as dry as bones