paper-thin

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpaper-thinˌpaper-ˈthin adjective THIN OBJECT OR MATERIALvery thin paper-thin walls► see thesaurus at thinExamples from the Corpuspaper-thin• By the early 1950s the claim that agriculture saved valuable foreign exchange was already paper-thin.• Slice the ginger paper-thin and scatter it, along with the onion slices, over the fish.• Her sophistication was paper-thin, and underneath she was just a very young, and probably over-protected, girl.• The wrinkled skin was stretched tightly over the bones, paper-thin, blue-shadowed over pink crêpe.• The walls in this apartment are paper-thin; I can hear everything they're saying next door.• With his brother he invented a paper-thin malt flavoured toasted flake of maize - the Corn Flake.• This is made of paper-thin material pierced by a number of small lenses.• paper-thin slices of raw beef• Suddenly, hideously, the world had become a mask - a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world.

单词	paper-thin
释义	paper-thin From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpaper-thinˌpaper-ˈthin adjective THIN OBJECT OR MATERIALvery thin paper-thin walls► see thesaurus at thinExamples from the Corpuspaper-thin• By the early 1950s the claim that agriculture saved valuable foreign exchange was already paper-thin.• Slice the ginger paper-thin and scatter it, along with the onion slices, over the fish.• Her sophistication was paper-thin, and underneath she was just a very young, and probably over-protected, girl.• The wrinkled skin was stretched tightly over the bones, paper-thin, blue-shadowed over pink crêpe.• The walls in this apartment are paper-thin; I can hear everything they're saying next door.• With his brother he invented a paper-thin malt flavoured toasted flake of maize - the Corn Flake.• This is made of paper-thin material pierced by a number of small lenses.• paper-thin slices of raw beef• Suddenly, hideously, the world had become a mask - a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world.
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