More meat on a butcher's pencil
Heard in Dublin
Description of a very thin person. Also: Description of someone very skinny.
...Ah God help 'im, there's more meat on a butcher's pencil." "Jaysus look at her theresmore meat On a butchers" "Pencil
Good gracious help the fellow, he possesses the remarkably meagre girth of a butcher's sketching instrument.