Definition of "through and through" []

• Completely; entirely; fundamentally. (adverb)
• A bullet wound in which the bullet passes through the body. (noun)

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• "It was as if dismalness had soaked through and through everything."
• "Charles Sumner, who was to the Senate much what Stevens was to the House, although a larger and better-balanced man, was a typical Bostonian and inheritor of the New England conscience, which, of course, meant that he was opposed through and through to slavery."
• "He looked through and through a Hellene; his courage was already talked of; he could stick on the back of his little Kentaur pony like one of Old Handy's boys."