with a whole skin
with a whole skin also 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.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms