thick end

noun

thick end

noun

1

UK, Colloquial, Idiomatic Most; the greater part (of an amount of money).

How much did the M1 cost? The thick end of £20M pounds, in fact. Yet the limited availabity of taxpayers' money meant that Britain could never hope to compete with the two world superpowers, Russia and the USA, […]2014, East End at War and Peace, Michael Russell, page 195:

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