Idiom
thick skin
Meaning
Ability to take criticism or harsh behavior without being easily offended.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You need a thick skin to work in sales.”
“She developed a thick skin after years of dealing with difficult customers at the office.”
“To survive in the competitive world of professional politics, one must cultivate a thick skin against constant public scrutiny.”
Examples
simple
“You need a thick skin to work in sales.”
contextual
“She developed a thick skin after years of dealing with difficult customers at the office.”
complex
“To survive in the competitive world of professional politics, one must cultivate a thick skin against constant public scrutiny.”
Origin
From a compound of the adjective *thick* and the noun *skin*. It is a routine construction of Germanic origin, with *thick* descending from Old English *þicce* and *skin* from Old Norse *skinn*.
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