You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut.
Source: tatoeba (6289678)
Lath
/lɑːθ/
Synonyms for "lath" (121 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
5 entriesMore specific
6 entriesexpanded metal lathmetal lathplaster lathwire lathwood lathwooden lath
Collocations
9 entriesexpanded metal lathlath and plasterlath striplathing plastermetal lathplaster lathwire lathwood lathwooden lath
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
3 entriesSample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Nevertheless, timber, with lath and plaster, and thatch for the roofs, constituted the chief materials in the dwellings of the English from an early period till near the close of the fourteenth century and beginning of the fifteenth, when bricks began to be used in the better sort of houses.
Source: tatoeba (11707475)
"You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."
Source: wiktionary
The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.