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full tide en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, not-comparable) Strongly; with full power; full-bore.
    • "Gosh, that drink was good," Ulysses declared cheerily. His optimism swung back full tide. 1935 March 30, The Northern Herald, Cairns, Qld, page 26, column 1:
    • And joyfulness comes on full tide with them for evermore. 1918 May 20, The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate, NSW, page 4, column 1:
    • The taste for out-door life and green fields came back full tide on all our writing after the coffeehouse life of the last century[.] 1867 May 24, The Ballarat Star, Victoria, page 4, column 3:
    • "I see she's back full tide on the booze again." 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165:

full tide en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of high tide (“the highest level of the tide”).

Synonyms

high tide