soaked to the skin

Idioms  

1. Also, soaked through. Drenched, extremely wet, as in What a downpour; I'm soaked to the skin, or She fell in the stream and was soaked through. The implication in this idiom implies that water has penetrated one's clothing, so one is thoroughly wet. The phrase to the skin has been so used since about 1600; it and the variant were combined in Randle Cotgrave's Dictionary (1611) as “Wet through, or (as we say) to the skin.”

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soaked to the skin

Even the server laughs as he walks away, soaked to the skin.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022

I awoke to find the left half of my tattered clothes soaked to the skin.

From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020

"And pity us poor punters, oblivious to the fact we are sinking in mud and soaked to the skin, because every gig we go to from now will fall short of this."

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2019

But as 10,000 protesters, by police estimates, began to march — some under umbrellas and others soaked to the skin — many of them said the new measures had deepened their resolve.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2012

We are the only people on the street, both of us soaked to the skin.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins