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Sky-high   /skaɪ-haɪ/   Listen
Sky-high

adverb
1.
(with verb 'to blow') destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces.  "The committee blew the thesis sky-high"
2.
In a lavish or enthusiastic manner.  Synonym: enthusiastically.
3.
To a very high level.  "Garbage was piled sky-high" , "The men were flung sky-high by the explosion"





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"Sky-high" Quotes from Famous Books



... face to face with the strawberry marmalade's shameless certificate of purity. Bright among withdrawn blessings now appeared to him the ghosts of pot roasts and the salad with tan polish dressing. His home was dismantled. A quinzied mother-in-law had knocked his lares and penates sky-high. After his solitary meal John sat at ...
— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... suh, it ain't any question of lettin' an' thar never has been sence the boy first put on breeches. Why, when I refused to sell him whisky at my sto', what did he do but begin smugglin' it out from town! Fletcher found it out an' blew him sky-high, but in less than a month it was ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... ain't any question of lettin' an' thar never has been sence the boy first put on breeches. Why, when I refused to sell him whisky at my sto', what did he do but begin smugglin' it out from town! Fletcher found it out an' blew him sky-high, but in less than a month it ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... came to him it took shape in a furious soliloquy, addressed to the vacant space about. "Devil take the day!" he grunted, pressing his hands to his lean sides as if he were trying to squeeze back the breath into his jaded body. "The sun rides as sky-high as the King's pride, and the air blazes as dog-hot as the King's choler. I have climbed the hill-side to spite him, and now am like to die of thirst to spite myself, unless I ...
— The Proud Prince • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... I reckon Lorry'll be fo'man of that ranch one of these days. Cattle is sky-high and goin' up. I ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert


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