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through thick and thin

  1. To stay with someone or something “through thick and thin” is to persevere through good times as well as bad: “She stood beside her friend through thick and thin.”



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Despite all obstacles or adversities, as in She promised to stand by him through thick and thin. This term alludes to penetrating a forest with both thick and sparse undergrowth. Today it is nearly always used with the idea of supporting something or someone in all circumstances, as in the example. [Late 1300s]
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Obviously that was a childish delusion, but Trump has clung to it through thick and thin, even fantasizing that they had a special bond.

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“Mom has been there my entire life. She’s always been there through thick and thin,” Woods said last year in accepting the USGA’s Bob Jones Award.

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"The two of us have proved that we genuinely love each other through thick and thin for more than 20 years," Chakkrit says."We have been ready to take care of each other since our first day together. We are no different from heterosexual couples."

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“Through thick and thin we have continually found our way back to each other and have chosen one another. Cheers to us, I love you.”

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Actress Helen Worth has stuck with the character through thick and thin since 1974, and fans have seen Gail weather many domestic dramas, romances, bust-ups and even prison.

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