English
Noun
bag of bones (plural bags of bones)
- (idiomatic) a skinny, malnourished person
Synonyms
Translations
a skinny person
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 骨瘦如柴 (zh) (gǔshòurúchái)
- Estonian: kondikubu, luu ja nahk
- Finnish: luukasa
- French: sac d'os (fr) m, paquet d'os (fr) m
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- 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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