"Soaked to the bone" nghĩa là gì?

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'Soaked to the bone' có từ soak là ngâm, thấm nước -> soaked là hoàn toàn ướt, ướt đẫm, ướt sũng -> từ này nghĩa là 'ướt như chuột lột'.

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Niko returns home, haggard (hốc hác, phờ phạc) and soaked to the bone by a rainstorm — as you do when you’ve finally been confronted by your wife’s mistress (nhân tình).

If you've ever been on a backpacking trip where it started raining midway through and you spent three days soaked to the bone, you know how important it is to bring a good rain coat (áo mưa).

Johnson County has been soaked to the bone in recent days. FOX4's weather team reported the metro has cleared 5 inches of rain since Saturday, which is well above average. That's left homeowners scrambling (tranh cướp, tranh giành) to get the water out of their cellars (hầm rượu, hầm chứa thức ăn, hầm tránh gió bão) and to bail out (tát nước) their basements (hầm).

Fields cites thinkers like Diogenes, Shakespeare and L. Ron Hubbard as inspirations for his new album, which according to a press release “soundtrack[s] his dream of a world soaked to the bone in the unequaled compassion that’s prevailed through his 50 years of marriage and counting.”

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