soaked to the skin

Idioms and Phrases

Also, soaked through . Drenched, extremely wet, as in What a downpour; I'm soaked to the skin , or She fell in the stream and was soaked through . The implication in this idiom implies that water has penetrated one's clothing, so one is thoroughly wet. The phrase to the skin has been so used since about 1600; it and the variant were combined in Randle Cotgrave's Dictionary (1611) as “Wet through, or (as we say) to the skin.”