to look like a skeleton
- Fuente de la expresión
- Gran Diccionario Oxford (inglés-español, español-inglés)
- Variantes
- to be a (walking) skeleton
- Contexto
- “My dad’s opinion was, ‘She’s an athlete with an eating problem. Give her a protein drink, and she’ll gain weight.’ It’s hard to remember specific things from that period because I spent all of my time thinking about food, counting and recounting my calories. But I do remember one incident when I went shopping with my mom and sister for a bathing suit. I came out of the dressing room in a bikini, and my mother had to turn away to keep from crying because I looked like a skeleton. Soon after that, my mother took me to the doctor, and I was admitted to the ER.”
- Tipo de fuente
- magazine
- Autor
- Gigi Marino
- Título de la fuente
- “Starving for Control” in Research/Penn State, Vol. 20, no. 1
- Año
- 1999
- Web
- http://www.rps.psu.edu/jan99/starving.html
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Sin definir