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thick as thieves

Idiom(s): (as) thick as thieves

Theme: FRIENDS

very close-knit; friendly; allied.
• Mary, Tom, and Sally are as thick as thieves. They go everywhere together.
• Those two families are thick as thieves.

roll one's sleeves up

Idiom(s): roll one's sleeves up

Theme: WORK

to get ready to do some work.
• Roll your sleeves up and get busy. This isn't a picnic. This is work!
• Come on, you guys, get busy. Roll up your sleeves and go to work.

Honor among thieves

If someone says there is honor among thieves, this means that even corrupt or bad people sometimes have a sense of honor or integrity, or justice, even if it is skewed. ('Honour among thieves' is the British English version.)

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To get ready for a hard job; prepare to work hard or seriously. When Paul took his science examination, he saw how little he knew about science. He rolled up his sleeves and went to work.

roll up one's sleeves

roll up one's sleeves
Prepare to work, as in When he saw how much snow had fallen he simply rolled up his sleeves and went to find the shovel. This expression, alluding to turning one's sleeves upward to avoid getting them wet or dirty, is used both literally and more loosely, as in the example here.

thief, thieves

thief, thieves
see it takes one to know one; thick as thieves.