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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
England still have three months to prepare for their Euros opener against France on 5 July and Wiegman is keen not to get too carried away.
I got that carried away, and it was fantastic.
The Arsenal manager said the win had given his players "joy and confidence and belief", but was not getting carried away when questions were put to him about the records that his team had broken.
A team of Los Angeles workers watched while waters from the Arroyo Seco flood channel carried away Alejandro Diaz’s belongings as he broke down his home of the last five years Monday morning.
Pyne: What I’m carrying away from our present conversation is that maybe all parties involved need to reexamine their understanding of what we’re looking at.
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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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