to be as thin as a whipping post
- Fuente de la expresión
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
- Variantes
- to be thin as a whipping post
- Contexto
- "Now, Walter, what were the circumstances of that fight?"
"Ah, I remember; and I think I see what you are driving at, Aunt Kate. Saunders, who is only a slightly-built fellow, and almost as thin as a whipping post, got into a row with some of those canal men; he wanted them to turn out of his way, or to let him pass and go through a lock before them, and they wouldn't." - Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Theodore P. Wilson
- Título de la fuente
- Amos Huntingdon [ebook]
- Año
- 0000
- Web
- http://manybooks.net/pages/wilsont2113121131/100.html
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Sin definir
- Marca dialectal
- Dialectal Ireland
- Frecuencia
- Raro