mountains high
Nautical hyperbolically
adverb
As high as mountains (with reference to waves).
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Daniel Defoe (?1660–1731), writer and businessman.
- statelet
- state letter
- statelihood
- statelily
- state line
- stateliness
- stately
- stately home
- state machine
- statement
- statemental
- statement form
- statement of affairs
- statement of claim
- statemonger
- Staten Island
- state occasion
- state of affairs (or things)
- state of emergency
- state of grace
- state of life
- state of matter
- state of play
- state of the art
- State of the City