skin and bone

Frequency: 6.03.7 per million words

An idiom describing a person or animal that is extremely thin.

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Examples (20)

  • He was all skin and bone after his long illness.
  • After the long illness, he was nothing but skin and bone.
  • The rescued puppy was just skin and bone when they found it.
  • The rescued dog was so thin it was just skin and bone.
  • She looked worryingly like skin and bone; I hope she's eating enough.
  • She looked skin and bone after months of strict dieting.
  • By the time the war ended, the prisoners were little more than skin and bone.
  • The war had left the survivors looking like skin and bone.
  • The stray cat had been reduced to skin and bone from lack of food.
  • He was a skin and bone figure, clearly suffering from malnutrition.
  • The children in the famine-stricken region were tragically just skin and bone.
  • The artist's depiction of the prisoner showed him as skin and bone.
  • You're all skin and bone! You need to eat more.
  • I was worried when I saw how skin and bone my cat had become.
  • If he keeps refusing to eat, he'll be nothing but skin and bone.
  • The model's extreme thinness made her appear skin and bone.
  • I was skin and bone after that bout of food poisoning.
  • After a prolonged period of hardship, he was reduced to skin and bone.
  • The old horse, once strong, was now sadly skin and bone.
  • The scarecrow in the field was nothing but skin and bone.