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skin and bones

phrase as in scrawny

phrase as in underweight

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Baroness Golding said her dad told her of people at the camps who were "skin and bones with vacant eyes".

From BBC

Shred chicken into bite sized pieces, discarding skin and bones.

From Salon

“When my brother came, he was skin and bones,” Ms. Laveus said.

Lodge sometimes took the body parts - which included heads, brains, skin and bones - back to his home while some remains were sent to buyers through the mail, authorities allege.

Lodge sometimes took the body parts — which included heads, brains, skin and bones — back to his home while some remains were sent to buyers through the mail, authorities allege.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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