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Meaning of the height of something in English

the height of something

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the time when a situation or event is strongest or most full of activity:
August is the height of the tourist season.
March is the height of the wet season in South America.
Because it was the height of the cold war, bases had to be ready to respond to a nuclear threat at a moment's notice.
at the height of At the height of the crisis we were left without any help.
She wrote the book at the height of the women's liberation movement.
an extreme example of something:
the height of fashion
His statement today is the height of hypocrisy.
His outfit was not exactly the height of good taste.
It would be the height of irresponsibility to pour more money into this project.
In those days, a small black and white TV was the height of entertainment.
the time when you are most successful in what you do:
at the height of She was at the height of her career when he first met her.
At that time, Bush was at the height of his political power.
It was an exhilarating time for us and we were at the height of our success.
That year was the height of their commercial success but by the late 1980s the hits had dried up.
The movie chronicles his poor childhood through to the height of his musical career.
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(Definition of the height of something from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Translations of the height of something

in Chinese (Traditional)
…的高潮（或高峰）, （…的）極致（或極端）, （事業的）巔峰…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
…的高潮（或高峰）, （…的）极致（或极端）, （事业的）巅峰…
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