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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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But there was that guy who was thin as a rake and eat several Big Macs a day.
He was as thin as a rake, and was taller than most men at that age.
He was in an armchair with a fawn dressing gown over his pajamas, as thin as a rake, his whole body drooping, and when he looked up and saw me, or perhaps only barely saw me, but heard my name, his eyes narrowed with hatred.
Thin as a rake and prematurely balding, with deep-set eyes, he cut an elegant figure in his handmade suits, often with drainpipe trousers, accompanied by exceedingly loud red socks.
Soon she will realise that no matter how much the old boy eats he stays thin as a rake.
Katy ducked behind John, then peered around him to see an old man with yellowing eyes and white hair, with a bent back and thin as a rake.

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