Phrasebook sentences (adjectives), you include your accepted phrase!: Más flaco y largo que mapa de Chile.
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Expression of the day:
Está más flaco y largo que mapa de Chile.
This is just another example of how weird we are
Can go with female or male.
Meaning: he /she is thin and tall
I wonder what our Chilean friends will have to say to this
Supply the most idiomatic translation in English
6 Answers
He is as tall and thin as a beanpole. For either a man or a woman.
He is as lanky as a string bean. Está tan flaco como una judía verde. larguirucho = lanky
¡ Está más flaco que un rastro !
She is thinner than a rake! He is thinner than boardinghouse porridge.. 
As tall as a church spire.
Long streak of piss. ie "Him? He's just a long streak of piss."
Urban, derogatory and definitely NOT polite! (Because piss is not a polite word, although only about 4/10 on the 'shock' scale I would estimate.)
It has 2 meanings.
Someone who overestimates his own importance or ability.
Applied to any tall, thin person, especially of a rather droopy or ‘wet’ nature.
Note I have never heard this applied to a female.
"As thin as a rake"
"As thin as a toothpick"
There is also the saying that something is "so thin it only has one side," but I'm not sure if it is ever used in reference to people.
