as thin as a lath(shòu gǔ lín lín)

as thin as a lath

Bony, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ò UG ǔ L í NL í n, which means to describe people or animals skinny. From the history of entrepreneurship.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Qing's the first book of the history of entrepreneurship says: "two long bony hands caress the head of baowa who stands in front of her and never leaves her mother."

Idiom usage

He is very thin. For the sake of only three coppers, our poor little Shen a Si took off his rags, exposed his bony ribs and fibulas, and jumped into the Huangpu River with a "plop". Hu Wanchun's people growing up by the Huangpu River

Chinese PinYin : shòu gǔ lín lín