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sky-high, adv. and a.
[sky n.1]
A. adv. As high as the sky; very high. Freq. fig. Also in phr. to blow sky-high; fig., to refute utterly; = explode v. 3.
1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 208 Opinions which would make the bench of bishops jump sky-high! 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xviii, We..should probably have been knocked to pieces and blown sky-high. 1845A. Jackson Let. 6 June in M. James A. Jackson (1937) xxiii. 498 Put your veto upon them both, or you and your Secretary will be blown sky high. 1887Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 62 Always up sky-high or down in the dumps. 1948Daily Tel. 29 May 2/6 [He] blew sky-high the complacent superstition of a war-time ‘renaissance’. 1951N. Mitford Blessing i. viii. 83 At this dinner Grace's preconceived ideas about the French..were blown sky high. 1955Times 26 May 3/3 Matters which had been put forward in the course of that case had either fallen by the wayside or had been blown ‘sky-high’.
B. adj. Reaching to the sky. Also fig., very high.
1840Carlyle Heroes i. (1904) 39 Utgard with its skyhigh gates..had gone to air. 1959Times 7 Sept. 11/6 The current miracle of labour-saving flats, sky-high wages, and welfare state. 1975A. Bergman Hollywood & Le Vine (1976) v. 67 We don't pay writers whatever sky-high figures their agents talk them into demanding. |