The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thick \Thick\, n.
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The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
In the thick of the dust and smoke.
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A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.]
--Drayton.Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.
--Spenser.He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
--Dryden.Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle.
Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small.
Through thick and thin she followed him.
--Hudibras.He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy.
--Coleridge.
Wikipedia
Through Thick and Thin is the second full-length album by San Diego punk band Dogwood.
Usage examples of "through thick and thin".
I've been with him through thick and thin and neither one of us has hit the big time, so we don't have to worry about that angle.
She's stuck to him through thick and thin and forty years of adultery.
You stick to it through thick and thin, no matter how silly or hard it is.
And he led them a great pace over rough and smooth and through thick and thin, till the horses of all the courtiers were tired out and these four were still following.
The only exception to the general rule was that Thraxton had somehow formed an intimate friendship with King Geoffrey, a friendship that endured through thick and thin.
The only exception to the general rule was that Thraxton had somehow formed an intimate friendship with King Geoffrey, a friendship that endured through thick and thin—.
When I was a young man I made up my mind what I wanted to do, and stuck to it through thick and thin, and that's why I'm where I am to-day, and—.
Earthers still maintain their rigid, centuries-old stand on monogamous marriage through thick and thin.
A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.
Both father and son were amazed afresh at the strange medley Don Quixote talked, at one moment sense, at another nonsense, and at the pertinacity and persistence he displayed in going through thick and thin in quest of his unlucky adventures, which he made the end and aim of his desires.