with whole skin
English edit
Prepositional phrase edit
- (idiomatic, archaic) safe; unscathed
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- He has to return, with whole skin, but without success; and be thrown into arrest, as a traitor.