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with whole skin

with whole skin prepositional phrase: safe; unscathed.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) Safe; unscathed.
    • He has to return, with whole skin, but without success; and be thrown into arrest as ‘a traitor’.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book VII (Vendémiaire), page 441

Questions about with whole skin

What does with whole skin mean?
With whole skin means safe; unscathed.
What part of speech is with whole skin?
With whole skin is a prepositional phrase.

Words near with whole skin in the dictionary

  1. with this
  2. with time
  3. with tongue in cheek
  4. with training wheels
  5. with us
  6. with whole skin
  7. with young
  8. with't
  9. with-
  10. with-held
  11. with-hold

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