单词 | as thin as a rail |
释义 | > as lemmasas thin (also lean) as a rail P4. as thin (also lean) as a rail: (of a person) as thin as a piece of railing, very thin. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 1795 P. M. Freneau Poems (new ed.) 415 As dull as a cat and as lean as a rail! 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. i. 8 She was as thin as a rail, and carried her head below the level of her shoulders. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xv. 125 You'll marry a combination of calico and consumption that's as thin as a rail. 1934 ‘J. S. Strange’ For Hangman xvi. 183 He was a bright looking boy of about sixteen..and thin as a rail. 1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now viii. 39 Machiavelli, himself as lean as a rail, did not like fat men. 1967 G. Jackson Let. 30 Sept. in Soledad Brother (1971) 131 I am getting thin as a rail, feel all right, however. 2006 Washington Times (Nexis) 19 Sept. c7 He's close to 200 pounds and lean as a rail. < as lemmas |
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