Sober serious

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  • so very serious
  • uber: (German) over, very
  • sober serious c.f. Evans: My People, Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, 25: 'A Heifer Without Blemish': 'What nonsense you talk out of the back of your head! Sober serious, mouth not that you have thrown gravel at Sara Jane's window!'