Meaning of thick and thin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Both thickets and thin woodland; all obstacles in a path (including bad weather).
   uncountable
2. Both good and bad times.
   idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“His tyreling Jade he fiersly forth did push⟳ / Through thicke and thin, both over banck and bush [...]”

“As Joan of France, or English Mall, / Through perils both of Wind and Limb, / Through thick and thin she follow'd him, / In ev'ry Adventure h' undertook, / And never him, or it forsook.”

“I must follow⟳ him through thick and thin.”

“He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy.”

“They say⟳ that when the chips are down, girl Your love⟳ won't stay⟳ so long, my friend But they don't know⟳ that your sweet loving, babe Has been around through thick and thin”

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