pencil-necked vs thin as a rake

pencil-necked

adj
  • Having a very thin neck. 

  • Insubstantial; weak. 

thin as a rake

adj
  • Incredibly thin, at an unhealthy-looking level of thinness. 

How often have the words pencil-necked and thin as a rake occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )