Idiom
soaked to the skin
Meaning
Extremely wet.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I forgot my umbrella and got soaked to the skin.”
“The sudden thunderstorm caught us without raincoats, and we arrived at the party soaked to the skin.”
“After trekking through the relentless downpour for hours, the exhausted hikers finally reached the shelter, completely soaked to the skin and shivering from the cold.”
Examples
simple
“I forgot my umbrella and got soaked to the skin.”
contextual
“The sudden thunderstorm caught us without raincoats, and we arrived at the party soaked to the skin.”
complex
“After trekking through the relentless downpour for hours, the exhausted hikers finally reached the shelter, completely soaked to the skin and shivering from the cold.”
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