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What's the skinny

Origin of Phrases - W

 

What's the skinny

Meaning: What is the story, what is going on, what is happening, what is the background.

 

Example: What's the skinny on this White water thing?

 

Origin: This is a shortened version of the "skinny naked truth" which comes from W.W.II. Skinny in this case meaning "resembling skin" and being redundant with naked. This phrase literally is asking for the naked, unobscured truth.

Alternatively,

Skinny is defined as inside information. Hence "what's the skinny" literally asks what is the inside information. This definition may derive from the "skinny naked truth".

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