(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."

skin and bone

Extremely thin or emaciated. I know the merger has been stressful, but have you been eating? Because you're just skin and bone these days.

skin and bone

skin and bones

COMMON If you describe someone as skin and bone or skin and bones, you mean that they are very thin, usually because they are ill. A man like me can't live on beans — I'll soon be skin and bone. By the end of her life she was nothing but skin and bones.