become as emaciated as a fowl

become as emaciated as a fowl

Bony, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ò UG ǔ L í nx ú n, which means to describe people or animals skinny. From the spring and Autumn Annals of Xiaocheng.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 18 of Gao Yunlan's spring and Autumn Annals of a small city: "Xiuwei sees a bare, bony child laborer, carrying a dustpan of mud, struggling on a suspended springboard."

Idiom usage

This time, the dry howl of the bony black dog made the haggard old horse stand up its ears. Miscellaneous colors by Wang Meng

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: bony, bony and angular; antonym: fat and strong