thick-skinned

thick-skinned

Immune to or able to ignore the verbal attacks or criticisms of others. You have to be pretty thick-skinned if you want to be in the entertainment industry. For how much she mocks other people, you'd think she'd be a bit more thick-skinned than that.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*thick-skinned

Fig. not easily upset or hurt; insensitive. (The opposite of thin-skinned. Typically: be ~; become ~; grow ~.) Tom won't worry about your insults. He's completely thick-skinned. Jane's so thick-skinned she didn't realize Fred was being rude to her.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

thick-skinned

mod. able to withstand much criticism. (Compare this with thin-skinned.) You gotta be more thick-skinned if you want to be a cop.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • thin-skinned
  • have a thick skin
  • have a skin like a rhinoceros
  • rhinoceros
  • have a hide like a rhinoceros
  • have a hide/skin like a rhinoceros
  • a thick skin
  • a thick/thin skin
  • keep (one's) eye(s) skinned (for someone or something)
  • you can dish it out, but you can't take it
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Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez seems hell-bent on impeaching Vice President Leni Robredo, suggesting he's prepared to defy President Rodrigo Duterte's directive to his allies to 'let her be,' and describing her as a thick-skinned official who has betrayed the public trust.
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