gangly drink of water

plural gangly drinks of water

1. Synonym of skinny drink of water.

   Reverend, that gangly drink of water can surely exhort almost as good as you.

   2011, Claude W. Keenam, The Jungle of Fear: A Reverend Alabaster Armstrong Mystery, →ISBN, page 55

   2 more examples

   A 24-year-old gangly drink of water with a skull-hugging haircut, Anthony Wheeler was from a wealthy town in suburban Connecticut.

   2009, Aaron Roston, Fellows in Arms: A 21st Century Teaching Saga, →ISBN, page 52

   I will readily admit that I was mostly a tall, gangly drink of water, but “physical disability”?

   2011, Robert Waldrop, I Get the Drizzlies When It Rains: Inside Look at Newspaper People, →ISBN, page 78

   Synonyms: skinny drink of water