Be (as) thin as a rake In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "be (as) thin as a rake", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

Eudora Thao

2021-03-12 11:03

be as thin as a rail , be as thin as a stick

Be (as) thin as a rake British simile

Be extremely thin or slender

I don't know why I'm still thin as a rake, even though I eat a lot.

I'd always been as thin as a rake but my weight went up to more than 60 kilograms after giving birth.

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Used to indicate a thin sheet of ice under which water has already receded.

be (all) skin and bone(s)

If you say that someone is all skin and bones, you mean that she is very skinny and even emaciated.

be (as) thin as a stick

Used to describe someone is extremely skinny.

The verb "be" should be conjugated according to its tense.

The phrase came from the prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales c. 1387 in the work 'As lean was his horse as is a rake'.

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