skin: story

Image: Shelley Jackson: still from Skin, tattoo | 2003

Shelley Jackson: the skin project...

• by the skin of my teeth
• it gets under my skin
• s/he is so thick-skinned
• beauty is only skin-deep
• I am skint (skinned)
• hide bound
• scratch my skin
• s/he is so skinny
• save one's skin
• s/he was skinned alive
• it's no skin off my nose / back
• the skin worms
• the skull beneath the skin
• the heart never knows the colour of the skin
• we went skinny dipping
• there's more than one way to skin a cat
• I jumped out of my skin
• s/he makes my skin crawl
• I am soaked to the skin
• it'll save your bacon (skin)