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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 121 The noun phrase today is 'skin
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and bones'. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. A person or animal that is
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skin and bones is extremely thin or emaciated. That's how we may say it. This
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condition would usually only happen from a serious lack of nutrition. So, yeah
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usually somebody whatever they allowed themselves to get into that position or
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somehow they were starving to death that they they ended up in this position that
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they you know, their body is almost like skin and bones. Okay.
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Sometimes the phrase could also be heard as someone is nothing but skin and bones.
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Okay. We say it that way too. Let's continue. This phrase dates back to
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the early 1400s and alludes to someone being so skinny, you can see a
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lot of their skeletal frame , especially their ribcage. So if they take off their
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shirt you know, you see their, their ribs right through their , their skin, their
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meat. They're probably hardly any meat at all. You see it's like a the arm is
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like a bone. In this sense we say somebody is like just skin and bones.
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Okay. Let's continue. All right. We have four examples the way we may hear it
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used. Here's example number one. Before Karen Carpenter died, she was nothing but
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skin and bones due to suffering from anorexia. So yeah
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this is this is one way it could happen. If somebody has like anorexia or bulimia.
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One of those diseases where they're actually kind of starving themselves to
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death. You could end up looking like skin and bones. And sadly a lot of people in
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that situation sometimes they'll look in the mirror and still think they are too
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fat. That's the mental disease. That's connected to that. All right number two.
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Seriously, you need to put on more meat or more flesh or more weight on your
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body , you are starting to look like skin and bones. Well this is only if
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somebody's really lost too much weight. Way too much weight. Or here number three.
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After many people were released from concentration camps during World War two,
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they were just skin and bone. Yeah. You see a lot of old photos from that time of
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what they looked like when they you know first got out. All right and number
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four here. Years ago, Benetton you know, the company, the clothes company Benetton
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promoted an ad campaign. You know promoting models that were just skin and
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bones. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it . I hope it was clear. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your
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time. Bye-bye.