bag of bones

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Noun

bag of bones (plural bags of bones)

(idiomatic) A skinny, malnourished person or animal.

Synonyms

rickle o' banes (chiefly Scotland)

Translations

a skinny person

Chinese:
Mandarin: 骨瘦如柴 (zh) (gǔshòurúchái)
Dutch: scharminkel (nl) m or n
Estonian: kondikubu, luu ja nahk
Finnish: luukasa

French: sac d'os (fr) m, paquet d'os (fr) m
German: Haut und Knochen (skin and bones)
Hungarian: csontkollekció (hu)
Japanese: 痩せっぽち (やせっぽち, yaseppochi)
Russian: ко́жа да ко́сти (ru) (kóža da kósti) (skin and bones), мешо́к с костя́ми m (mešók s kostjámi), живы́е мо́щи m pl (živýje móšči) (live relic), Коще́й бессме́ртный m (Koščéj bessmértnyj) ("Koshchey immortal", a spirit in the Slavic mythology)

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