in a whole skin{adv. phr.} With no injury; unhurt; safely.
The boy was lucky to escape with a whole skin when the car went off the road. Jack came through the game with a whole skin. The horse threw him off, but he got away in a whole skin. Syn.: SAFE AND SOUND.
See: WITH A WHOLE SKIN.
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