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carry away
verb
- to remove forcefully
- usually passive to cause (a person) to lose self-control
- usually passive to delight or enrapture
he was carried away by the music
Idioms and Phrases
Move or excite greatly. This expression is usually used in the passive, be carried away , as in The eulogy was so touching we were carried away , or Take it easy; don't get carried away and overdo . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
"The fact he's just standing here in the ring tonight, not many people could put up with what he's gone through. His emotions are bound to get carried away."
More than 100 trucks and excavators and other equipment are working on the highway and more than 1,200 truckloads of debris are being carried away per day, the governor’s office said.
McIlroy refused to get carried away with the highs of that round, or too disheartened by a stickier patch around the turn.
It is, therefore, perhaps unsurprising he is not getting carried away with his current advantage.
Video from Shejaiya showed the dust-covered bodies of small children being carried away from the rubble by distraught relatives and rescue workers.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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