- skinny as a beanpole
- *skinny as a beanpolevery thin; very skinny. (*Also: as \skinny as a beanpole.) •
I exercised and dieted until I was skinny as a beanpole.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
skinny as a beanpole
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beanpole — n. a skinny person. □ I’m getting to be such a beanpole. □ I used to be a beanpole. Look at me now both of me! … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
beanpole — n. pole that bean plants climb on; (nickname for) very tall and skinny person … English contemporary dictionary
chunky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. stocky, thickset. See shortness. Ant., slim, lanky. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. stocky, thickset, stout; see fat 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. thick, stocky, thickset, *built like a fireplug … English dictionary for students
lean — [adj] bare, thin angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole*, bony, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lank, lanky, meager, no fat, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny,… … New thesaurus
meager — [adj1] small, inadequate; poor bare, barren, deficient, exiguous, flimsy, inappreciable, inconsiderable, infertile, insubstantial, insufficient, little, mere, minimum, miserable, paltry, puny, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shabby, short, skimp … New thesaurus
slender — / slim [adj1] thin, not heavy attenuate, beanpole*, beanstalk*, fine, insubstantial, lean, lithe, narrow, reedy, skeleton, skinny, slight, spare, stalky, stick, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, threadlike, trim, twiggy, willowy; concepts 490,491 Ant.… … New thesaurus
slim — slender / slim [adj1] thin, not heavy attenuate, beanpole*, beanstalk*, fine, insubstantial, lean, lithe, narrow, reedy, skeleton, skinny, slight, spare, stalky, stick, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, threadlike, trim, twiggy, willowy; concepts… … New thesaurus
thin — [adj1] fine, light, slender attenuate, attenuated, beanpole*, beanstalk*, bony*, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched … New thesaurus
