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What does thin as a rake mean?

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Adjective
  1. (simile) Incredibly thin, at an unhealthy-looking level of thinness.
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Purdy is in his mid 70s now, an impeccably polite, nearly dressed man, thin as a rake, with big startled eyes.
But there was that guy who was thin as a rake and eat several Big Macs a day.
Now when I say model, I'm not talking of some long-legged, thin as a rake super-model who looks like she hasn't had a good meal in years, and would fall over if you as much as blew in her ear.
Marc dressed in black, looking thin as a rake and white as a sheet.
He was as thin as a rake, and was taller than most men at that age.
For this man, thin as a rake, was hefting quantities of cardboard boxes up and down the stairs.

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