单词 | in thick and thin |
释义 | > as lemmasin thick and thin 1. through thick and thin, †in thick and thin: through everything that is in the way; without regard to or in spite of obstacles or difficulties; under any circumstances. literal and figurative (apparently originally with reference to ‘thicket and thin wood’.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [phrase] > in all difficulties in thick and thinc1386 fall back (also flat), fall edge?1553 c1386 G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale 146 The hors..gynneth gon.. Forth with wehee, thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne [v.r. thurgh thikke and thenne]. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 22682 A smale posterne I may pace, And, thorough thykke and thynne trace. c1450 J. Metham Wks. 41/1101 Forth yn thyk and thyn He gan lepe. 1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng f. civv Kyng Rychard..purposed to go throughe thicke and thinne in this mater. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb7v His tyreling Iade he fiersly forth did push, Through thicke and thin, both ouer banck and bush. 1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 183 And tag, and rag, through thick and thin came running. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar v. ii. 80 A thorough pac'd Lyar that will swear through thick and thin. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 40 Six precious souls, and all agog To dash through thick and thin. 1894 H. Caine Manxman v. vi There's five hundred men here to back you up through thick and thin. < as lemmas |
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