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wafer-thin
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thin out
To make or become sparse.
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thin-skinned
Having a thin skin.
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thin-skinned
Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; touchy.
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into thin air
Immediately and inexplicably out of sight.
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on thin ice
In a dangerous, hazardous, or delicate situation; at risk.
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thick and thin
Both good and bad times.
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out of thin air
From non-existent resources.
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skate on thin ice
In a risky, potentially dangerous or delicate situation.
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thin edge of the wedge
Beginning; opening; precedent.
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thin end of the wedge
Something that if allowed or accepted to a small degree would lead to systematic encroachment.
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no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
Regardless of how many clever points or fine distinctions one makes, what one is saying is still false or is still nonsense.
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lead
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
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pencil-neck
A person with a very thin neck.
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pencil-necked
Having a very thin neck.
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pencilneck
A person with a very thin neck.
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throw dirt enough, and some will stick
If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at [1] on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say
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