string bean

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Height can be found on both sides of Watson’s family — his father is 6-5, his mother 5-10 — but no one else besides Peyton’s younger brother, Christian, has string bean arms and legs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Ginger said, "I think you’re right! You got the job string bean."

From Fox News • Jan. 7, 2022

It also features a very strong supporting cast whose standouts include the director Marielle Heller as Beth’s loving, enabling adopted mother, and a shockingly charming human string bean.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2020

It’s hard to square that horrific past with the sunny, 6-foot-4 string bean who strides through Lowe’s like a small-town mayor in a Fourth of July parade.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2018

Before long, he was thumping around the house, thin as a string bean, swallowing buckets of food to regain the weight he’d lost.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover