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Sky-high

adverb

(with verb 'to blow') destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces. "The committee blew the thesis sky-high"

In a lavish or enthusiastic manner. Synonym: enthusiastically.

To a very high level. "Garbage was piled sky-high" , "The men were flung sky-high by the explosion"

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... 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 Bright among withdrawn blessings now appeared to him the ghosts of pot roasts and the salad with tan polish dressing.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

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... 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

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