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'skin and bone' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or animal that is thin or underfed. For example, "He was just skin and bone after months of living in poverty."
Idiom
Skin and bones.
If someone is skin and bones, they are very underweight and look bad.
Dictionary
skin and bone
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Exact(59)
She's just skin and bone".
A sad mass of skin and bone.
Drain, rinse and remove any pieces of skin and bone.
But Barry is not just skin and bone.
The explicit description of skin and bone and ligament tearing apart left little to the imagination.
And you're not fit to be one of those if you're all skin and bone.
This should be complemented by a tiny piece of plastic-coated skin and bone from Australia.
I believe skin and bone adds a depth of flavour, but use skinless fillets if you prefer.
Only the skin and bone," Yevgeny Elizarov, director of the Concoursni poultry farm, said on the program.
"To highlight the detail of life, the seconds of thinking that we're all skin and bone and chemicals and memories.
Her latest medico-crime thriller, Skin and Bone (Hodder £6.99, pp384), has a girl bludgeoned, frozen and burnt to death.
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