Tiredness - wash over
Hi,
Do you ever use ‘wash over me’ in a casual conversation when you talk about being tired?
“I couldn’t even finish reading the third chapter because the tiredness after the whole day hit me like a truck/washed over me like a wave of lead.”
“I feel so overwhelmed by tiredness right now.”
Are these sentences way too formal? We talk like that in my language, but these would sound a bit off to my ear if I heard them in everyday speech.
Perhaps the first sentence with the truck sounds better?
Thank you.
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Ann225 Do you ever use ‘wash over me’ in a casual conversation when you talk about being tired? No. I would understand it, but I don't use it, and I've never heard it.
- Ann225 Do you ever use ‘wash over me’ in a casual conversation when you talk about being tired?
- No.
- I would understand it, but I don't use it, and I've never heard it.
- It seems literary.
- Maybe I read it in a novel somewhere?
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Ann225Do you ever use ‘wash over me’ in a casual conversation when you talk about being tired?
No. I would understand it, but I don't use it, and I've never heard it. It seems literary. Maybe I read it in a novel somewhere?
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