skin and bones | Idiomator

Meaning: A person or an animal that isemaciatedor verythin, as from lack ofnutrition.Look at that starving dog; he's nothing more thanskin and bones.1886,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:"Eh, good evening, sir," she said to me, as she drew herself up to make the best of her own inflated bulky appearance, "come and sit down here and tell me how it fares with you; but, by my troth, you are nothing butskin and bones!"

Examples:

EN: I'm just skin and bones!
ES: ¡no soy más que piel y huesos!
EN: Oh, well, I'm just skin and bones.
ES: - Bueno, estoy hecho un esqueleto.
EN: He is skin and bones.
ES: Todo piel y huesos.
EN: Here I work myself down to the skin and bones trying to keep this guy asleep, and what do you do?
ES: ¿Y qué haces tú? ¡Silbidos!
EN: it's not the swimming trunk it's that one who reduced me to skin and bones!
ES: No es el bañador, es ese que me ha dejado en los huesos.
EN: No meat on them, just skin and bones.
ES: Sólo piel y huesos.
EN: Not quite. They drain the liquid from their bodies, leaving only the skin and bones.
ES: No, drenan el líquido del cuerpo y dejan solo los huesos y la piel.
EN: You always said you don't like me because I'm skin and bones!
ES: Me has dicho siempre que te daba asco porque era todo huesos.
EN: Tut-tut-tut. Just skin and bones.
ES: Sólo piel y huesos.
EN: I'll cut his skin and bones up!
ES: ¡Le cortare por la mitad!
EN: I had so much, that I couldn't give him more on the doctor's orders..., because I grew so thin, just skin and bones due to the breast feeding, and the milk was still just coming from my breasts!
ES: Tenía mucha, pero no podía darle más por orden del doctor, ...ya que estaba delgadísimo debido a la lactancia. Y mis pechos seguían produciendo leche.
EN: Since he brought that whore, I'm skin and bones.
ES: Pero desde que trajo a esa puta... Mire, estoy en los huesos. ¡Intenta cogérmelas!
EN: Miss skin and bones.
ES: La señorita piel y huesos...
EN: All my friends say I'm nothing but skin and bones and mighty little skin.
ES: ¿No encuentras?
EN: What have you been doing yourself? You're nothing but skin and bones.
ES: ¿Qué dices tú, si eres todo piel y huesos?

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