Name: 英語の家庭教師ニックP 名詞句 (121) Skin and Bones (English Tutor Nick P Noun Phrase (121) Skin and Bones)
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 121 The noun phrase today is 'skin

and bones'. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. A person or animal that is

skin and bones is extremely thin or emaciated. That's how we may say it.  This

condition would usually only happen from a serious lack of nutrition. So,  yeah

usually somebody whatever they allowed themselves to get into that position or

somehow they were starving to death that they they ended up in this position that

they you know,  their body is almost like skin and bones. Okay.

Sometimes the phrase could also be heard as someone is nothing but skin and bones.

Okay. We say it that way too.  Let's continue. This phrase dates back to

the early 1400s and alludes to someone being so skinny,  you can see a

lot of their skeletal frame , especially their ribcage. So if they take off their

shirt you know,  you see their, their ribs right through their , their skin, their

meat. They're probably hardly any meat at all. You see it's like a the arm is

like a bone. In this sense we say somebody is like just skin and bones.

Okay. Let's continue. All right. We have four examples the way we may hear it

used. Here's example number one. Before Karen Carpenter died,  she was nothing but

skin and bones due to suffering from anorexia. So yeah

this is this is one way it could happen.  If somebody has like anorexia or bulimia.

One of those diseases where they're actually kind of starving themselves to

death. You could end up looking like skin and bones. And sadly a lot of people in

that situation sometimes they'll look in the mirror and still think they are too

fat. That's the mental disease. That's connected to that. All right number two.

Seriously,  you need to put on more meat or more flesh or more weight on your

body , you are starting to look like skin and  bones. Well this is only if

somebody's really lost too much weight.  Way too much weight.  Or here number three.

After many people were released from concentration camps during World War two,

they were just skin and bone. Yeah.  You see a lot of old photos from that time of

what they looked like when they you know first got out. All right and number

four here. Years ago,  Benetton you know,  the company,  the clothes company Benetton

promoted an ad campaign. You know promoting models that were just skin and

bones. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it . I hope it was clear. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your