Imprisoned inevery fat manathinoneiswildlysignalling to be let out.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

As thin and neat as a furled umbrella.

-Emery,Jane
  On Rose Macaulay. Rose Macaulay.

   A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery,Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! A Sewell & Cross young man, A Howell & James young man, A push-ing young par-ti-cleö 'What's the next ar-ti-cle?'ö Wa-ter-loo House young man!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

-Smith, Al(fred) Emmanuel
  Election campaign speech, October.

   O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow room. See Connolly 233:82, Orwell 628:52.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Officers and Gentlemen, interlude.