Meaning:
intimate, close-knit.
Examples:
- Maja and Amanda were as thick as thieves.
- I mean, another lifetime, you and me, we... could have been thick as thieves, you know?
- And-and you, you used to tell me everything, too, and now you and my brother are as thick as thieves.
- You two are as thick as thieves, aren't you?
- Interesting fact... the phrase "thick as thieves" was coined in... Not now, Brick.
- You two are thick as thieves, now.
- I say by the end of the evening you two will be thick as thieves.
- Yeah, thick as thieves, I reckon.
- The executive and legislative powers are thick as thieves, dodging the truth, like in the famous Vermeer painting, in view of the onlookers, European citizens.
- The cop let you go. - Yeah, we know each other. We're thick as thieves.