thick as thieves

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Intimate, close-knit, tight. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — So the king sneaked into the wigwam and took to his bottle for comfort, and before long the duke tackled HIS bottle; and so in about a half an hour they was as thick as thieves again, and the tighter they got the lovinger they got, and went off a-snoring in each other's arms.

词形变化

thick as two thieves alternative close as thieves alternative

词源

From thick (“friendly, intimate”), first attested in 1827 as "thick as two thieves".
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