with whole skin
English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic, archaic) safe; unscathed
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VII (Vendémiaire), page 441:
- He has to return, with whole skin, but without success; and be thrown into arrest as ‘a traitor’.