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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Lean (Adjective)
 
  Lean as a dog in Lent.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Lean as Sancho’s ass.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Leene was his hors as is a rake.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  3
  Lean as a lath.
            —Thomas Heywood		  4
  Lean as a backgammon board.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  5
  Lean as a lantern.
            —William Langland		  6
  Lean like bull-beef.
            —Richard Mather		  7
  Lean as a skeleton.
            —Thomas Shadwell		  8
  Leaner than fleshless misery.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  9
  As lean as a lizard.
            —James Smith		  10
  Lean as death.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  11
 
 
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