through and through

1. In every part or aspect, throughout. For example, I was wet through and through, or He was a success through and through. This idiom originally was used to indicate literally penetration, as by a sword. The figurative usage was first recorded in 1410.

Example Sentences

But these were Swanburne girls, through and through, and they had been well trained not to panic.

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For, indoors or out, Penelope was a Swanburne girl, through and through.

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For, no matter where fate, happenstance, or wanderlust might carry her, Penelope was a Swanburne girl, through and through.

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He said he was "BBC through and through", and cares deeply about the corporation and wants it to succeed.

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"He was very much 'I am a mountain biker through and through. You are not going to get me on the track, it's boring'."

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