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
skinny and scrawny
one after another in close succession - xiàng bèi xiāng wàng
look for a needle in a bottle of hay - dà hǎi lāo zhēn