paper thin

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   thin as paper

   “her blouse was paper thin”

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Questions about paper thin

What does paper thin mean?

paper thin means "thin as paper".

Is paper thin a common word?

paper thin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.