through and through

de part en part, jusqu’au bout

Entièrement, dans tous les aspects du caractère ou dans toutes les parties de quelque chose.

En anglais simple : Completely, in every part of your character or throughout something.

• She is kind through and through.
• He remained a teacher through and through after retiring.
• The old beam was rotten through and through.

Synonymes : completely, entirely, to the core

Contraires : partly

Expressions courantes : honest through and through, through and through professional, rotten through and through

plaie transfixiante

Blessure faite par une balle qui entre dans le corps et ressort de l’autre côté.

En anglais simple : A wound caused by a bullet that enters the body and comes out on the other side.

• The wound was a through and through.
• The surgeon treated a through and through in his shoulder.
• An exit hole showed that it was a through and through.

Synonymes : through-and-through wound

Expressions courantes : a through and through, through and through wound