Daily life
soaked to the skin
completely wet through
If you are soaked to the skin, your clothes and body are completely wet.
Hear it in real life
Why are you changing your clothes?
I got soaked to the skin on the way home.
We were soaked to the skin by the time we reached the bus stop.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I was soaked until the skin.
Say: I was soaked to the skin.
The fixed expression uses "to the skin," not "until the skin."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be soaked to the skin; get soaked to the skin
Your turn: say it out loud
We were soaked to the skin by the time we reached the bus stop.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
soaked to the skin
completely wet through
“We were soaked to the skin by the time we reached the bus stop.”
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