to the tonsils

Language: en

Meaning: (figuratively,idiomatic,informal,postpositive)Entirely, completely, extremely, to the greatest degree.Synonyms:seeThesaurus:to the fullHe was stuffedto the tonsilswith cream crackers.They sat there, robed upto the tonsils, and made me feel so below a juvenile delinquent.1960,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VI, inJeeves in the Offing, London:Herbert Jenkins,→OCLC:And who could say how soon, if I continued to be always at his side, Wilbert Cream would get it up his nose and start attacking me with tooth and claw? Already his manner was that of a man whom the society of Bertram Wooster had fedto the tonsils, and one more sight of the latter at his elbow might quite easily make him decide to take prompt steps through the proper channels.

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