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skin and bones

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Noun1.skin and bonesskin and bones - a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
scrag, thin person
individual, 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


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Sometimes a mischievous child risked his skin and bones for the ineffable pleasure of driving a pin into Quasimodo's hump.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
I mean, godmother,' replied Miss Wren, sitting down beside the Jew, 'that the fox has caught a famous flogging, and that if his skin and bones are not tingling, aching, and smarting at this present instant, no fox did ever tingle, ache, and smart.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
She said she knowed I could feed it on what other folks eat; and the child kinder pined, and cried, and cried, and cried, day and night, and got all gone to skin and bones, and Missis got sot agin it and she said 't wan't nothin' but crossness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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