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Skin and bones   /skɪn ənd boʊnz/   Listen
Skin and bones

noun
1.
A person who is unusually thin and scrawny.  Synonyms: scrag, thin person.






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"Skin and bones" Quotes from Famous Books



... given them for all-wise purposes. The hyena and the vulture are the scavengers of the tropical regions. The hyena devours what the vulture leaves, which is the skin and bones of a dead carcass. Its power of jaw is so great, that it breaks ...
— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat

... can do, isn't it? Two winters ago I saw whole Indian villages starving, and women and little children dying by the score because of this John Graham's money. Over-fishing did it, you understand. If you could have seen some of those poor little devils, just skin and bones, crying ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood

... composer of a Pageant play, his endeavour has been rather to clothe the scenes, which he conjures up, with the flesh and blood of quickened reality, than in the bare skin and bones of a dry-as-dust's rigid skeleton. How far he has succeeded in this he leaves to others to decide; for himself he can honestly say, that it has not been from lack of care, enquiry, or labour, if he has fallen short of ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter



Words linked to "Skin and bones" :   fat person, someone, thin person, individual, mortal, soul, spindlelegs, spindleshanks, person, somebody



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