through and through

English

Alternative forms

• through-and-through (noun)

Adverb

through and through (not comparable)

1. Completely; entirely; fundamentally.

   He moved from Cincinnati to San Francisco, but he's still a Cincinnati Bengals fan, through and through.

   • [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:

     Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the coffin, though sound enough to outer view, was wormed through and through, and little better than a rotten shell. So it was that I had some ado to get over it, not daring either to kneel upon it or to bring much weight to bear with my hand, lest it should go through.

Translations

entirely

Dutch: door en door (nl) Finnish: läpikotaisin (fi), henkeen ja vereen, kauttaaltaan (fi) German: durch und durch (de) Greek: Ancient: διαμπερές (diamperés) Icelandic: í húð og hár Norwegian: tvers igjennom, fra ende til annen Polish: na wylot, na wskroś (pl) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: скро̑з на̏скро̄з Roman: skrȏz nȁskrōz Spanish: a carta cabal, por los cuatro costados (Spain), en toda regla, de los pies a la cabeza Swedish: (ända) ut i fingerspetsarna (sv), alltigenom (sv) Yiddish: דורך און דורך (durkh un durkh)

See also

• out-and-out

Noun

through and through (plural through and throughs)

1. A bullet wound in which the bullet passes through the body.