皮包骨
pei4 baau1 gwat1pí bāo gǔ
English
- (adjective) too skinny; scrawny, extremely scraggy; emaciated
- skinny; scrawny; bony; literally 'bones wrapped in skin'
粵語 — Cantonese
- 形容一個人好瘦;皮膚下面就係骨,啫係一啲肉同脂肪都冇。
Examples
她瘦得只剩皮包骨了。
She is all skin and bone.
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佢患咗重病,體重暴跌,瘦到皮包骨噉,望到就覺得心痛。
He got seriously sick, his body weight plummeted, and now he's so thin that he looks like a pile of bones wrapped in a layer of skin. It breaks your heart just to look at him.
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk