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lay it on thick	To guilt, guilt-trip.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
the thick plottens	The plot thickens.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
lay it on thick	To exaggerate or overstate a feeling or emotion.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
come thick and fast	To appear repeatedly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in the thick of	In the middle of (something difficult).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in the thick of it	In a precarious situation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lay it on thick	To flatter.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
thick and thin	Both good and bad times.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
thick as a brick	stupid; slow to learn or understand.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
thick as thieves	Intimate, close-knit.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
thick of things	A central or major role in a situation; a position in which one is surrounded by or very involved in complex, changing events.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
thick skin	Used other than as an idiom: see thick, skin.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
thick skin	Ability to take criticism or harsh behavior without being easily offended.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
black-on-black	A description of the colors of an automobile .	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
pachyderm	A member of the obsolete taxonomic group Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephant, pig and horse.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
razor strapped	The violent WHIPPING of a recalcitrant, errant, disobedient grammar school boy with a two-inch wide by thirty inch long by one/quarter inch thick cowhide strap or belt. Punishment was generally for a misdemeanor and the beating was generally by the schoolmaster, school Principal, janitor or a person designated by the Principal to administer the 'thrashing': 'Crying out' or screaming by the school boy was met by harsher thrashing and Yelling' from the maddened 'THRASHER': The well 'WELTED'STRAPPED victims were forced to return to their classroom	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
smoke and mirrors	A deceptive, fraudulent, or unconvincing explanation or description.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
solid as a rock	Extremely thick and heavy, so as to make it impossible to move.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
thirsty thursday	A Thursday description when adding an adult drink to the mix is a good idea.	Rate it: (5.00 / 2 votes)
a 'lotta baloney'	Depression Expression judging a statement, assertion or a description as being much similar as slices of 'bologna':	Rate it: (4.80 / 5 votes)
black-on-black	A description of the colors of an automobile.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
a picture paints a thousand words	A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
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 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	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
ils s'entendent comme larrons en foire	They are as thick as thieves.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
all sizzle and no steak	A thing or person which fails to measure up to its description or advanced promotion.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dicendo augere, amplificare aliquid (opp. dicendo extenuare aliquid)	to lend lustre to a subject by one's description.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
donkey jacket	thick garment	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
elegantia orationis	tasteful description.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go off on one	To launch into an animated diatribe, or passionate description or explanation of something.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
I haven't the foggiest	I don't know, I haven't a clue (as thoughts clouded by a thick fog).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
if the shoe fits, wear it	If a description fits something, then it is probably true and the subject of the comment should consider that the comment is probably true. Now more often than not, we simply say "If the shoe fits" without the "wear it" after it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
it’s a doozy	A description of an unusual or unexpected experience or realization.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
meat and potatoes	normal, average, typical, unexceptional, or nondescript in description	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pachyderm	Someone with thick skin. It is used for animals such as an elephant or a hippopotamus.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pen picture	A written description, often biographical.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Punchboard	A book-size laminated paper 1'/2 inch thick board with 25 to 200 drilled holes in surface. Holes contain 'accordion-fold', numbered kite-paper which when 'punched-out of board' with small PUNCH-tool may reveal a 'winning-chance number': Winning Numbers posted on board. Variety of Valuable prizes is predetermined by cost of a single 'PUNCH': Win! Box Candy, jewelry, trinkets, appliances, tools, flashlights et al:	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
scotch broth	thick soup	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shit hole	A negative description of a physical place; a decaying democrat-run municipality.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the terrorists will have won	Phrase used following a description of an activity to indicate that if that activity is not continued or carried out, those who seek to disrupt normal activities through terror will have succeeded, an which is an unacceptable result.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
une image vaut mille mots	Une représentation graphique est plus souvent parlante qu'une description.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
warts and all	Of or pertaining to a description or other depiction which reveals the full range of characteristics of a person or thing, including the shortcomings and imperfections.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)