carried away
Speech parts
1. carried away - Adjective
2. carried away - Verb
Meaning
carried away
past participle of carry away
carried away (comparative more carried away, superlative most carried away)
(idiomatic) Made excessively emotional or excited, so that one goes too far.
I only meant to buy one new dress, but I got carried away and ended up with five.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.
May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind.
Let what is on this side of the bank be washed out by the flood, and what is on that side of the bank be carried away by the wind.
Words and feathers are carried away by the wind.