soaked to the skin
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3.2
- idiom
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empapado
- By the time I got down to the Rainmaker's camp, I was soaked to the skin and muddy.
Examples
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I'm soaked to the skin.
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I was soaked to the skin.
Fiction book (1994) -
Still, she was soaked to the skin before another hour had passed.
Fiction book (2000) -
Helen was soaked to the skin within seconds.
Fiction book (1998) -
"I'm okay," I said, though she was right; I was soaked to the skin.
Fiction book (2002) -
The man enters the restaurant soaked to the skin.
Fiction book (1997) -
I was soaked to the skin and shivering before I gave up.
Fiction book (2001) -
He was soaked to the skin and starting to shake, not necessarily from the cold.
Fiction book (1997) -
Ben confronts Jelly and Jimmy, who are soaked to the skin.
Fiction book (1999) -
After being caught in the rain, she arrived home soaked to the skin and shivering.
Synonyms
10
6.0
Very wet and heavy with water
2
3.4
Completely soaked with liquid so it cannot absorb any more
1
3.9
Completely wet, for example from rain or sweat
Completely wet and heavy with water
Very wet and full of water like clothes after heavy rain
Very wet and full of water
So wet that water falls from it
Antonyms
How Wet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'completely wet' is directly derivable from the parts: 'soak' (to make very wet) combined with the extent phrase 'to the skin' indicates saturation up to the body. This is a common, literal extent construction found across languages and follows predictable composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase soaked to the skin paints a simple picture: your clothes are so full of water, soaked, that the water reaches your skin and you are wet right through. That's why it means 'completely wet'.