Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Thin
Thin as a groat.
—Anonymous
Thin as a rail.
—Anonymous
Thin as a snake.
—Anonymous
Thin as a wafer.
—Anonymous
Thin as famished rats.
—Anonymous
Thin as gold leaf.
—Anonymous
Thin as wall paper.
—Anonymous
Thin as a reed.
—Anonymous
Thin as a spindle.
—Anonymous
Thin as a toothpick.
—Anonymous
Thin as the shadow of a hair.
—Anonymous
Thin as a pair of shears.
—Arabian Nights
His poor body is as thin as a nail.
—Honoré de Balzac
Thin as the petal of the cotton blossom.
—Henry A. Clapp
Thin as a lath.
—Foundling Hospital for Wit, 1743
So thin that he was obliged to put lead in his shoes so as to not be blown away by the wind.
—Victor Hugo
Thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich.
—Stephen Leacock
Thin as a carriage painter’s arm.
—Abe Martin
Thin as a weasel.
—George Meredith
Thin as mist.
—George Meredith
Thin as the shell of a sound.
—George Meredith
Thin as a brief forgotten dream.
—Richard Monckton Milnes
A Spectre, thin as that dismal flame
That burns and beams, a moving lamp,
Where the dreary fogs of night encamp.
—T. Buchanan Read
Her body thin and bare as any bone.
—Thomas Sackville
Thin as a skeleton.
—Thomas Shadwell
Thin of substance as the air.
—William Shakespeare
Thin as Fraud.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thinned, as the shades in a vision of spirits that sinned.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thin as a costume worn by a Salome dancer.
—Walter Trumbull