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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



... afterwards, for she is only a very small craft. The great—and indeed only—danger connected with the affair consists in the possibility of their firing a pistol into the powder-magazine when they discover that they are prisoners, and so sending the ship and all hands sky-high together." ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood


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