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词组 have a thick skin
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Idiom
have a thick skin(have) a thick skin
able to ignore personal criticism.
People will tell you they don't like your clothes or your voice or the color of your eyes, so you need to have a thick skin to survive.During the two years he was the spokesperson for the police, he developed a very thick skin.
idiomhave a thick skin BrEBrEhave thick skin AmEused in order to say that you do not get upset if people criticize you or do not like you:I don't expect they'll be glad to see me, but that won't bother me - I've got a thick skin.It is good to have thick skin if you are appointed as head of a department with instructions to sort it out.thick-skinned: Be careful what you say about my cooking - I'm not thick-skinned, you know.

have a thick skin

1. To have the ability to ignore verbal attacks or criticism from others. If you're going to pursue a career in politics, you need to have a thick skin so that the criticism of your detractors doesn't bother you.
2. To be unaware of or indifferent to other people's needs or interests. Ethel has a thick skin, so I'm not surprised she didn't see how unhappy you were.

have a thick (or thin) skin

be insensitive (or oversensitive) to criticism or insults.

have a thick skin

1. To be slow to take offense.
2. To be insensitive to the needs or concerns of others.

thick skin, to have a

To be insensitive to shame, reproof, slander, or criticism. The transfer of a tough epidermis to mental toughness is ancient, appearing in the writings of the Roman orator Cicero, among others. Carlyle wrote in Frederick the Great (1858), “Voltaire was a fool not to have thicker skin.” The opposite is meant by having a thin skin—that is, being hypersensitive to reproof or criticism, or being easily hurt. This usage dates from the late 1600s.
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