骨ほねと皮かわ

expression, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

skin and bones; nothing but skin and bones

Describes a person or animal that is extremely thin, often from illness or malnutrition. Used as a set phrase, typically with の or in a predicative pattern like 骨と皮だ.

• 病びょう気きで彼かれは骨ほねと皮かわになってしまった。

  He became nothing but skin and bones because of his illness.

• その捨すて犬いぬは骨ほねと皮かわの状じょう態たいだった。

  The abandoned dog was in a skin-and-bones condition.