Quotes - E.L. Doctorow

E.L. Doctorow:

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

Idiom - Get Under Someone's Skin

Get under Someone's Skin:

To get under sb's skin means to annoy or irritate them.

I’m not sure why, but that guy really gets under my skin.

Please stop singing that song.  It really gets under my skin.

Persian: اذیت کردن

Vocabulary - Scaly

Scaly:

1 A scaly animal or fish is covered with small flat pieces of hard skin
2 Scaly skin is dry and rough.

Dandruff is characterized by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp.

To relieve tight or scaly skin, add a teaspoon of fine oil to your bathwater.

Persian: خشک

Vocabulary - Flay

Flay:

To remove the skin from an animal or person, especially one that is dead.

Persian: پوست کندن

Vocabulary - Dimple

Dimple:

1. A small hollow place on your skin, especially one on your cheek or chin when you smile.

2. A small hollow place in a surface.

The pane of glass had a small dimple in it.

He has a dimple in his chin.

Dimpled cheeks.