thick end en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK, colloquial, idiomatic) Most; the greater part (of an amount of money).
How much did the M1 cost? The thick end of £20M pounds, in fact. Yet the limited availabity of taxpayers' money meant that Britain could never hope to compete with the two world superpowers, Russia and the USA, […]
2014, East End at War and Peace, Michael Russell, page 195:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| the thick end | canonical | lexicographic |