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Idioms: Your skin

Your skin! It's an important organ of the body. It's not equally revealed or shown, depending on traditions and habits. In our European society, skin is shown and sometimes carelessly exposed to the sun. It represents a surface area of two square metres and weighs from 3 to 8 kg on average.

It is very widely mentioned in expressions and idioms in many languages, including English.


To be skin and bones	To be skinny	To be thin-skinned/ thick-skinned

...by the skin of my teeth!	... No skin off my nose	A skin dip

To give some skin= to give 5	To slip on a banana skin	A skinflint= a miser

To be drenched/ soaked to the skin	A skindiver	A potato in its skin

To strip to the skin		A snake casts/ sheds its skin
Skin deep= superficial		Next to the skin
A skin artist= a crook		Redskins // Palefaces
Onion-skins		Skin diving= naked
He has a skinful!= totally drunk!		To be after/ out for sb's skin
To sell one's skin dearly		To come out of it with a whole skin= safe
To get under sb's skin		To have sb under one's skin

To jump out of your skin To make one's skin crawl

... AND A FEW PROVERBS !


Let eveyone skin his own skunk	An ass in a lion's skin

Beauty is only skin deep= unimportant	There's more than a way to skin a cat

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