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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