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They call that lean and hungry.
I am absolutely delighted that they are to receive new encouragement and new help because although they are healthy children they are still pretty lean and hungry children.
By all means have a powerful, lean and hungry bunch of people, who can act as health auditors.
Does he also agree that the so-called lean and hungry super-tier authority suggested by some people would soon become a fat and useless body?
He looks remarkably healthy and fit, if somewhat lean and hungry.
Twelve of them stood out, lean and hungry-looking men, and this personage walked across and spoke to them.