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paper-thick

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paper-thick

  1. (idiomatic, uncommon) Very thick.
    • 1813, Edward Somerset Marquis of Worcester, The Marquis of Worcester's Century of Inventions, page 20:
      To make a key of a chamber-door, which to your sight hath its wards and rose-pipe but paper-thick, and yet at pleasure, in a minute of an hour, shall become a perfect pistol, capable to shoot through a breast-plate commonly of carbine-proof, with prime, powder, and firelock, undiscoverable to a stranger's hand.
  2. (idiomatic, uncommon) Difficult to slice or separate.

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