"That sounds like a thin argument to me," said Wayne.

But a prize is rather a thin argument for reading it, especially in a wooden English translation."

So the common claim that Amazon's Kindle format was somehow less open than EPub was a pretty thin argument.

Mostly, these exchanges are less like political debate than bar talk, and since people do not talk much in bars anymore but watch TV, even the thinnest arguments can be enlightening.

I have analysed hundreds, if not thousands, of immigration cases for our End the Human Rights Farce campaign, and this case made among the thinnest arguments we have yet seen.

In 1944, for example, the court upheld President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order to remove Japanese-Americans from their homes on the West Coast and confine them in desert camps - on the thin argument, as it turned out false, that they might be disloyal.