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Through thick and thin (gcide) | Thick \Thick\, n.
1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
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In the thick of the dust and smoke. --Knolles.
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2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.
--Spenser.
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He through a little window cast his sight
Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
--Dryden.
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Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under
Fiddle.
Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and
difficulties, both great and small.
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Through thick and thin she followed him. --Hudibras.
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He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of
a military frenzy. --Coleridge.
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