Everyday English
dripping wet
extremely wet
If you are dripping wet, you are so wet that water is falling from your clothes or body.
Hear it in real life
Why are you standing in the hallway?
I am dripping wet, so I do not want to sit on the sofa.
I was dripping wet by the time I reached the bus stop.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I was dripping with wet clothes after the storm.
Say: I was dripping wet after the storm.
Use “dripping wet” to describe a person who is soaked through.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be dripping wet; come in dripping wet
Your turn: say it out loud
I was dripping wet by the time I reached the bus stop.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
dripping wet
extremely wet
“I was dripping wet by the time I reached the bus stop.”
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