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carried away

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carried away
made very emotional or enthusiastic. I got carried away and bought four new shirts. Not everyone was carried away by the news that the team had won.
See also: away, carry

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It was a Christmas Eve, too; and I remember that on that very night he told us the story about the goblins that carried away old Gabriel Grub.
AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.
Our craft, a Clyde-built barque of 1,000 tons, rolled so heavily that something aloft had carried away.
 
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