skinny and scrawny(shòu gǔ líng dīng)

skinny and scrawny

Skinny, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ò UG ǔ L í NGD ī ng, which means to describe a person or an animal as skinny as a bag of bones. It is also called "skinny odd". From the spring and Autumn Annals of Xiaocheng.

The origin of Idioms

Gao Yunlan's "spring and autumn of a small city" Chapter 26: "this cell is bigger and brighter. There is a skinny old man in it."

Idiom usage

It refers to thin and lonely.

Examples

Especially those who are very kind, and they will fall when they breathe. It's just impossible. Night by Ye Shengtao

Chinese PinYin : shòu gǔ líng dīng