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a thick skin thick-skinned - if you are thick-skinned, you do not notice or get upset when people criticize you. As a politician, you get so much criticism levelled at you that you eventually develop a thick skin. (have) a thick skin able to ignore personal criticism. People will tell you they don't like your clothes or your voice or the color of your eyes, so you need to have a thick skin to survive. During the two years he was the spokesperson for the police, he developed a very thick skin. |
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What the cause of the quarrel was, or what sharp sarcasm from the woman's lips pricked suddenly through that thick skin may never be known, but suddenly the man took his pipe in his left hand, leaned forward, and deliberately struck her across the face with his right. Thick skin is, indeed, our moral clothes, and without it we are not fit to be seen about in civilized society. A thick skin of new ice showed that it had not been used for some time. |
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