| 单词 | skin and bones |
| 释义 | skin and bonesor skin and boneSEE SYNONYMS FOR skin and bones ON THESAURUS.COM nouna condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones. Origin of skin and boneslate Middle English word dating back to 1400–50 Words nearby skin and bonesskimp, skimpy, skim-read, skin, skin alive, skin and bones, skin care, skin-deep, skin-dive, skin diving, skin dose Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for skin and bones
Idioms and Phrases with skin and bonesskin and bones Painfully 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. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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