as thin as a rail

And then I saw that she was as thin as a rail.

I know I'm as thin as a rail.

He's as thin as a rail these days.

He's as thin as a rail, so thin that his trilby looks a size too big for him.

Stan, who's as thin as a rail, is usually passive, but this is one of those times when he can be stubborn.

"He was as thin as a rail," Ms. Glazier said.

He eats as much as any two men aboard but owing to some metabolic defect he remains as thin as a rail.

When first we met, you were as thin as a rail and wanted only to return home to become a warrior and sire sons to fight the Huns.

No," she said, watching a brunette waitress who was as thin as a rail scurry from table to table, refilling glasses from a frosty pitcher of iced tea. "

Her eyes had lost all their luster, and she was as thin as a rail, and her clothes were bedraggled and stained and smelled of vomit and Christ knew what else.

He'd escaped a Bosnian Serb prison camp, was as thin as a rail and since then has worked on many of the worlds big humanitarian projects including the Yugoslav war crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Afghanistan and Iraq.

First you'll marry a combination of calico and consumption that's as thin as a rail, and next you'll get a creature that's nothing more than the dropsy in disguise, and then you've got to eke out that bridal dress with an old balloon.

How is it that you, who have been living like an oriental prince, who have guzzled cakes and roast duck and swilled wine and have had a harem to feed you the fat of the land in suitable small bits, how is it that you are as thin as a rail?

Despite being a ferocious eater as a child, 'I used to eat and eat and eat, and remained as thin as a rail,' his tastes have now changed and even the thought of a tiramisu after supper makes him feel bloated.