I cut the meat <off/from> the bones with a knife

[slovac]

Thank you. I will correct that mistake.
Could you please tell me whether this sentence is correct as well?

I cut the meat off the bones with a knife.

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[Copyright]

Both off/from are correct for me, with "off" being much more common.

 

[natkretep]

I think I'd almost always expect off. This is also influenced by the expressions meat on the bone and therefore meat off the bone. (Meat is supposed to be more flavoursome if cooked on the bone.)

 

[Copyright]

I left myself some room with my comment and I'm glad I did. Now that I've looked up cut the meat from the bone in Google, I see that it's in pretty wide usage, often in cookery, with 325 results.

While cut the meat off the bone has a slight lead with 355 results.

 

[slovac]

Thanks for the answers.