soaked to the skin

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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"We live three minutes away. We were contacted and came down and have taken him to our home. He was soaked to the skin."

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Some of the England players emerged to play football, but eventually even they had to admit defeat and returned to the dressing room soaked to the skin.

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I crawled into my tent at 2am, soaked to the skin.

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

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She didn’t want me to catch a chill from sitting the rest of the day soaked to the skin, she’d said.