| 单词 | skin and bones |
| 释义 | skin and bones (once / 33674 pages) n If your grandmother says you look like skin and bones, it means she thinks you're too skinny. Use the term skin and bones when you're talking about someone who is very thin. It's not a compliment; if a person is skin and bones, your usual reaction is going to be wanting to feed him a huge meal. You can use skin and bones in a lighthearted way — "Look at you, honey, you're all skin and bones!" — or in a more serious way, when you're referring to a truly malnourished person. WORD FAMILYskin and bones USAGE EXAMPLESChildren have been reduced to "skin and bones" as no food or water reaches the district of Ganfouda, in Benghazi. BBC(Sep 30, 2016) There is a steady flow of tiger corpses, sometimes whole, sometimes only the skin and bones. The Guardian(Sep 26, 2016) El Negro turned out to be an adult male, skin and bones, who hardly came up to one's elbow. BBC(Sep 15, 2016) n a person who is unusually thin and scrawny Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper scrag, thin person butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly a rotund individual spindlelegs, spindleshanks a thin person with long thin legs individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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