See thin as a yard of pump water on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "A stream of water falling approximately three feet from a water pump into a bucket is both straight and thin.",
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"ref": "1947, Lynn Doyle, Green Oranges: Stories",
"text": "Her mother was betwixt and between, and her father the same; but Rosie was as thin as a yard of pump-water, and could—and did—eat like a beagle without ever putting-on an extra ounce. Maybe she was abusing her good-fortune.",
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"ref": "1965, Publications of the Folk-lore Society",
"text": "She wadn't no summer morning to look at, poor soul, and her mistress kept her so thin as a yard of pump water. But there Providence knows best! There were a old fellow over by Aisholt, and he were such a upstanding courageous man he'd a […]",
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"ref": "1968, Katharine M. Briggs, Folktales of England, University of Chicago Press, page 74",
"text": "[…] managed, but they all went on looking so thin as a yard of pump water except Dicky — and he grew fat.",
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"ref": "2014, Daniel P Mannix, Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others, eNet Press, page 139",
"text": "[…] puts away enough food to satiate a pack of ravenous hyenas and remains as thin as a yard of pump water. It's the injustice of the whole thing that infuriates me.",
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"ref": "2018, Gloria Cook, Never Just a Memory, Canelo",
"text": "'Mmm. You're as pale as a lily and as thin as a yard of pump water. Mind you, a month or two out working in all weathers should pink you up, and rationing or no, I'll find something to put a bit of weight on you.'",
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