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snow under
Idioms and Phrases
Overwhelm, overpower, as in I can't go; I'm just snowed under with work , or We were snowed under by more votes than we could have anticipated . This expression alludes to being buried in snow. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
Shasta in perfect spring snow under glorious blue skies.
Snow accumulations of 1-2" above 5000' & a 50% chance of light snow under 1" possible on the Grapevine.
He added that clearing the roads of snow under such conditions could prove challenging.
“Now I need to go get some wind in my face, and just kind of connect with the mountain again, get some snow under my feet and just kind of reset.”
Not so much the snow under their snowboards, though.
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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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