in the skin

in the skin
   naked
   Particularly of nudity in public and breach of convention:
    She must sunbathe in the skin. (L. Thomas, 1979, noting the absence of strap marks)
   The more common in the buff comes from a shortened form of buffalo, whence the hide, whence the skin.

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