scrawny drink of water

English

Noun

scrawny drink of water (plural scrawny drinks of water)

1. Alternative form of skinny drink of water
   • 1994, Daniel Halpern, Antaeus: The Final Issue, →ISBN, page 133:

     He has ridden down to the lobby many times with people who work on the same floor as Bill Teale — including the scrawny drink of water from Consolidated Insurance — and they don't recognize him.

   • 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 134:

     He was handsome and dashing and sculpted, as opposed to a scrawny drink of water in a ghastly old brown coat

   • 2015, Jenny T. Colgan, Resistance Is Futile, →ISBN:

     Yet this big, scrawny drink of water out in the field by himself seemed to be hoofing it along absolutely fine.