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Significados de skin and bones en inglés

A person who is unusually thin and scrawny.

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Examples for "scrag"
Examples for "scrag"
1
The compatriot of Rachel was wrapping up a scrag of mutton.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
2
Now, perhaps you know somebody who is a scrag in society.
The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
3
Hunt for the spirit of the coming ruction and try to scrag it!
King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure
4
No wan iver seed a scrag of her after that.
Fort Desolation: Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land
5
And now I've done it, you want to scrag me.
The Keeper of the Door
1
The London cab is all very well for a short and thin person.
Arms and the Woman
2
You rarely meet a thin person on the street, says Sithole.
The Guardian
3
A thin person adopting the above light diet will generally get into good condition.
Papers on Health
4
This was a tall, thin person clad in black, with a gaunt and austere face.
Tales of Terror and Mystery
5
One watches a thin person thicken layer by layer, and a young active person became immured.
The new yorker
Uso de skin and bones en inglés
1
Remove the skin and bones, and cut the codfish into small squares.
Simple Italian Cookery
2
Keep the skin and bones for use in soups, braises and stocks.
Radio NZ
3
After drying, remove the skin and bones and flake with a fork.
How to Cook Fish
4
Her limbs, hands and feet were completely wasted, just skin and bones.
News.com.au
5
She lost all her hair, and was just withered skin and bones.
How to make love like a porn star
6
The old man who was their leader was just skin and bones.
Lonesome dove
7
Take any kind of cooked fish and free it of skin and bones.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
8
Separate the remnants of a baked bluefish into flakes, discarding skin and bones.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties / With Fifty Illust...
9
When I dine I want something more than skin and bones.
Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
10
He is nothing but skin and bones and surely cannot live much longer.
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
11
He's nothing but skin and bones; he has pissed his tallow.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
12
His aging skin and bones remembered that southern climate with longing.
The last page
13
She was skin and bones and close to the end of the line.
The reversal
14
She was pretty, all skin and bones, blossoming into someone beautiful.
Sons of the Oak
15
He looked to be a hundred, all skin and bones, withered and leathery.
Heat Rises
16
The child was fourteen now, but she was skin and bones.
The thirteenth tale: a novel