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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Example Sentences

McCartney's last Glastonbury appearance, in 2004, came after a day of heavy rain that left fans soaked to the skin.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2022

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

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022

We couldn’t get from point A to point B quickly enough, and we showed up to work, late, either soaked to the skin or sweating like pigs one too many times.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2014

It attacks the self-righteousness of the Southern aristocracy and left me soaked to the skin, sweaty with "the South".

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013

The star had been soaked to the skin when she arrived at the pass, sad and shivering.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman