thin as a rail

Very slender, as in I do not know why she's dieting; she's thin as a rail already. This simile, which uses rail in the sense of "a narrow bar," has largely replaced such other versions as thin as a lath or rake, although the latter is still common in Britain. [Second half of 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
ŚWiĘTomierz	shvyen-TAWM-yesh	Polish (Archaic)
Anna	AN-a (English), AHN-nah (Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish), AH-nah (German, Russian), AN-nah (Danish)	English, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Greek, Hung
Ayotunde	-	Western African, Yoruba
Thi	-	Vietnamese
PŘEmek	-	Czech
Hamida	-	Arabic