thin as a rail

骨瘦如柴瘦得像条狗瘦得像条鱼瘦得像条狗一样

thin as a rail 的定义

  1. Very slender, as in I do not know why she's dieting; she's thin as a rail already. This simile, which uses rail in the sense of “a narrow bar,” has largely replaced such other versions as thin as a lath or rake, although the latter is still common in Britain. [Second half of 1800s]

thin as a rail 近义词

thin as a rail

等同于 lank

thin as a rail

等同于 twiggy

thin as a rail

等同于 weedy

更多thin as a rail例句

  1. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  2. Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
  3. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  4. By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.
  5. In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.
  6. This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
  7. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
  8. A gentleman got out of a carriage before it stopped, and fell between the rail and the platform.
  9. The first rail road opened in Brazil, the emperor and empress being present at the inauguration.
  10. He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!