paper-thin

English

Adjective

paper-thin (not comparable)

1. very thin, as paper is; insubstantial.
   • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 41:

     As late as 1948 NKP, for its part, pitted its Berkshires against borrowed road diesels and declared that the difference in costs was less than paper thin.

Synonyms

• razor-thin

Translations

very thin

• Finnish: paperinohut

References

• “paper-thin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.