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skin and bones
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  skin and bones - a person who is unusually thin and scrawnyscrag, thin personindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"spindlelegs, spindleshanks - a thin person with long thin legs |
Translationsskin and bones
(all) skin and bones1. Extremely thin. I know the merger has been stressful, but have you been eating? Because you're all skin and bones these days.2. Emaciated. The children in the village were skin and bones by the time foreign aid arrived.See also: and, bone, skinskin and bonesPainfully thin, emaciated. This phrase often is expanded to nothing but skin and bones, as in She came home from her trip nothing but skin and bones. This hyperbolic expression-one could hardly be alive without some flesh-dates from the early 1400s. See also: and, bone, skinskin and bones
Synonyms for skin and bonesnoun a person who is unusually thin and scrawnySynonymsRelated Words- individual
- mortal
- person
- somebody
- someone
- soul
- spindlelegs
- spindleshanks
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