with whole skin

prepositional phrase

Safe; unscathed.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. archaicidiomaticSafe; 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
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APA

with whole skin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/with%20whole%20skin

MLA

“with whole skin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/with%20whole%20skin. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “with whole skin,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/with%20whole%20skin.

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