thick and thin

Definitions

1. 1

   Both thickets and thin woodland

   Both thickets and thin woodland; all obstacles in a path (including bad weather).

   • His tyreling Jade he fiersly forth did push / Through thicke and thin, both over banck and bush [...]
2. 2

   Both good and bad times.

   • 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.

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