Category: Literally

These pigs are literally hoovering the forest floor

Fred Sirieix, Celebrity Chef
Describing pigs foraging for acorns in the New Forest

If your brain took in everything at equal value, your head would literally explode off your shoulders!

Mel Robbins, “Motivational Speaker”.
(That doesn’t especially motivate me though.)

Krunal Pandya has literally bounced and bulldozed his way back into the Indian team

Dinesh Karthik, Sky TV, India v England ODI

He [KL Rahul] suddenly goes through these periods when he literally can’t buy a run.

Nasser Hussain, Sky TV, India v England T20

The vulture population was literally wiped out

Facebook post

They [Spurs] are literally running them ragged

Ian Wright, Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley

Sensational pass to pick someone out, literally pinpoint accuracy

Andy Townsend, Manchester City v West Ham

They [the birds] go through the food so quickly—literally eating us out of house and home

Dr Mya-Rose Craig “Birdgirl”, The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show with Alan Carr, BBC Radio 2

The country was literally split in two by the EU referendum

Jon Danzig, Journalist

When you appear on stage at the London Palladium you’re literally standing on the shoulders of giants

Joe Pasquale, TV tribute programme for the late Des O’Connor

It got the Kings XI literally to take the game out of the Sunrisers’ pocket

Lisa Sthalekar, Kings XI Punjab v Sunrisers Hyderabad, IPL

They’ve [Sheffield United] literally not laid a glove yet

Matthew Upson, Sheffield Utd v Manchester City

… this is, quite literally, going to blow your mind…

Chris Packham, Autumnwatch, BBC2
An introduction to a film about… Oh I don’t know, I’ve forgotten, because it blew my mind

When Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership, his team literally crashed through the doors

Owen Jones, “This Land”

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax

Nick Clegg
Deputy Prime Minister

I just died and went to heaven, literally and instantly

Neneh Cherry
BBC Radio 2

It’s difficult to play a game where you’re literally playing for your lives

Ian Wright
Commentating on Southampton v Manchester City

When you try adopting new ways of thinking or new behaviors, it can be painful; you are literally fighting against yourself

Anon
Article about Cognitive Journalling

Here’s hoping they will literally run the defence ragged

Saints fan
Commenting on the Danny Ings and Shane Long partnership

It literally killed me

Work colleague
After a tough meeting