痩やせ脛ずね

noun

thin legs; skinny shins

Rare term referring to thin or slender lower legs. Often used in set expressions like 痩せ脛を食う (to live off someone else's money, literally 'to eat someone's skinny shins').

• 彼かれは親おやの痩やせ脛ずねをかじって暮くらしている。

  He lives off his parents' money (literally, 'gnawing at their skinny shins').

• 「痩やせ脛ずね」という言こと葉ばは、現げん代だいではほとんど使つかわれない。

  The word 痩せ脛 is rarely used in modern Japanese.