scrawny drink of water

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Noun

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scrawny drink of water (plural scrawny drinks of water)

  1. Alternative form of skinny drink of water
    • 1994, Daniel Halpern, Antaeus: The Final Issue, →ISBN, page 133:
      He has ridden down to the lobby many times with people who work on the same floor as Bill Teale — including the scrawny drink of water from Consolidated Insurance — and they don't recognize him.
    • 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 134:
      He was handsome and dashing and sculpted, as opposed to a scrawny drink of water in a ghastly old brown coat
    • 2015, Jenny T. Colgan, Resistance Is Futile, →ISBN:
      Yet this big, scrawny drink of water out in the field by himself seemed to be hoofing it along absolutely fine.