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"skins and bones" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe someone or something as very thin or emaciated, with little flesh or muscle. It can also be used metaphorically to describe something that has been stripped down or bare. Example: The stray cat was nothing but skins and bones, clearly malnourished and in need of help. Example: After working out for months, he had shed all his excess weight and was now just skins and bones, with defined muscles and no extra fat.

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Then he focused on seashells and sea creatures, animal skins and bones.

Since the early 80's Ms. Hepper has been incorporating natural materials, including animal skins and bones, into Modernist sculptures.

Her other books of poetry include Coyote's Daylight Trip (1978), Shadow Country (1982), Skins and Bones (1988), and Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962 1995 (1997).

By the mid-1890s, toanks to demand for their meat, skins and bones by Native Americans and white men alike, they were nearly extinct.

Bison were wiped out, thousands at a time, not only to supply skins and bones for fertiliser (the rest of the carcass was abandoned) but also to deprive Native Americans of their subsistence.

Much of the poaching and smuggling of tiger skins and bones to China is now by organized gangs.

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They're skin and bones.

He's skin and bones.

I could feel skin and bones".

"I was skin and bones," Mr. Williams said.

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