full tide

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."