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skin and bones
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noun
a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
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Origin of skin and bones
late Middle English word dating back to 1400â50
Words nearby skin and bones
skimp, skimpy, skim-read, skin, skin alive, skin and bones, skin care, skin-deep, skin-dive, skin diving, skin dose
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skin 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 expressionâone could hardly be alive without some fleshâdates from the early 1400s.
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