(all) skin and bone(s)
Extremely thin, possibly even emaciated. I know the merger has been stressful, but have you been eating? Because you're all skin and bones these days. The children in the village were skin and bones by the time foreign aid arrived. A: "I hardly recognized Stan because he's skin and bone now." "Yeah, I heard he's been pretty sick these last few years."
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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 expression-one could hardly be alive without some flesh-dates from the early 1400s.
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