bare essentials

But they no longer have to make do with bare essentials.

Reduced to their bare essentials, they're leaving the big show to the fire.

"History records that everyone was allowed to keep the bare essentials."

Her bag was light now, only packed with the bare essentials.

"I told her what had happened, but just the bare essentials.

Soon, his house, once devoid of any but the bare essentials, began to look like a home.

A mountain village in Colorado, maybe, with just the bare essentials.

Her life was reduced to a minimum, less than the bare essentials.

The bare essentials: a mattress, music and a few fish.

I walked around wearing nothing but the bare essentials and felt really comfortable.

Their aim is to strip science down to its bare essentials.

Commanders only managed to get across the bare essentials of the plan.

It looked as if nothing but the bare essentials had been unpacked.

So she'd grabbed the bare essentials for the night and bolted.

Initially they had the barest essentials for the task at hand.

There's no money for anything except the bare essentials.

Most Russians no longer have enough income for even the barest essentials.

"They've controlled costs, stripped away everything but the bare essentials."

As for the ceremonies, during the really hard part of a campaign only the barest essentials are kept.

Only the governmental favorites had more than the bare essentials to eat.

At first he was only able to do the bare essentials to protect the castle from the elements.

His life has been pared to what he considers the bare essentials.

But generally your presentation must be reduced to its bare essentials before giving it.

Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers.

She had been too ill and weak by that time to carry more than the bare essentials.