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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.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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