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Thick as thieves

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Intimate, close-knit, tight. idiomatic, not-comparable

    "So the king sneaked into the wigwam and took to his bottle for comfort, and before long the duke tackled HIS bottle; and so in about a half an hour they was as thick as thieves again, and the tighter they got the lovinger they got, and went off a-snoring in each other's arms."

Etymology

From thick (“friendly, intimate”), first attested in 1827 as "thick as two thieves".

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