soaked to the skin

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soaked to the skin

to be extremely wet. I forgot my umbrella and got soaked to the skin when I had to go out this afternoon.

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But the weather was bad, the roads were heavy with mud, he was overtaken by a storm of rain, and ere he could find shelter he was soaked to the skin. English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context He knew it existed, as we know that crime and abominations exist; he had heard of it as a peaceable citizen in a town hears of battles, famines, and floods, and yet knows nothing of what these things mean -- though, indeed, he may have been mixed up in a street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower. Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph View in context With no preliminary whisper or rustle, without a splash, and even with- out the ghost of impact, I became instantaneously soaked to the skin. The Shadow Line by Conrad, Joseph View in context More results

References in classic literature

But the weather was bad, the roads were heavy with mud, he was overtaken by a storm of rain, and ere he could find shelter he was soaked to the skin.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

He knew it existed, as we know that crime and abominations exist; he had heard of it as a peaceable citizen in a town hears of battles, famines, and floods, and yet knows nothing of what these things mean -- though, indeed, he may have been mixed up in a street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower.

Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph View in context

With no preliminary whisper or rustle, without a splash, and even with- out the ghost of impact, I became instantaneously soaked to the skin.

The Shadow Line by Conrad, Joseph View in context

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