Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Thick-skinned

Not sensitive; not irritated by rebukes and slanders. Thin-skinned, on the contrary, means impatient of reproof or censure; their skin is so thin it annoys them to be touched.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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