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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

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

Moss walks out of the river, smoking, soaked to the skin, in a floorlength green sequin gown, Thames water dripping off those cheekbones.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2015

Within a minute Lyra and Will were both soaked to the skin and shaking with cold, and the rain stung their heads and arms like tiny stones.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman