full tide

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English

Noun

full tide (uncountable)

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

Adverb

full tide (not comparable)

  1. Strongly; with full power; full-bore.
    • 1867 May 24, The Ballarat Star, Victoria, page 4, column 3:
      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
    • 1918 May 20, The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate, NSW, page 4, column 1:
      And joyfulness comes on full tide with them for evermore.
    • 1935 March 30, The Northern Herald, Cairns, Qld, page 26, column 1:
      "Gosh, that drink was good," Ulysses declared cheerily. His optimism swung back full tide.
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165:
      "I see she's back full tide on the booze again."
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