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
as thin as a lath
do a discreditable thing secretly - àn shì qī xīn
be surrounded by hills and rivers - pī shān dài hé