thick and fast
English
Adverb
thick and fast (not comparable)
- Occurring in large numbers and rapidly.
- 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 13, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, OCLC 1000326417, pages 113–114:
- He sobbed […] but he forgave them. Then the sobs came thick and fast.
- 1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, OCLC 235822313:
- […] in view of the many events which were crowding thick and fast in Paris just then […]
- 1905, Upton Sinclair, chapter XIX, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, OCLC 1150866071:
- There were three or four inches of fresh snow on the ground, and the flakes were falling thick and fast.