as thin as a rake

"Someone about four foot tall and as thin as a rake."

He went as thin as a rake, and deathly pale then for a couple of weeks.

She remained as thin as a rake, although she was eating properly now.

She said when she saw you last you were as thin as a rake - and she's right.

As thin as a rake with sunken cheeks, black hair cut short, military style, and big, sad eyes.

She's also as thin as a rake.

If that was the secret I would be as thin as a rake," said David grimly.

In spite of all this food I remained as thin as a rake, and was as hungry as ever.

'Why, he's absolutely covered in bruises and weals - and he's as thin as a rake.

Tuberculosis as a child had kept Billy out of the war, but he was now a fit twenty-six year old, as tall as Yanto, but as thin as a rake.