gangly drink of water

English

Noun

gangly drink of water (plural gangly drinks of water)

1. Alternative form of skinny drink of water
   • 2011, Claude W. Keenam, The Jungle of Fear: A Reverend Alabaster Armstrong Mystery, →ISBN, page 55:

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

   • 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN:
   • 2009, Aaron Roston, Fellows in Arms: A 21st Century Teaching Saga, →ISBN, page 52:

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

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

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