up to eleven | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,informal,chieflyhumorous)Up toorbeyondthemaximumpossiblethreshold; to anextremelyhighorstrongdegree.[from 1984]Synonyms:seeThesaurus:to the full1997,Matthew Branton,The Love Parade, London:Bloomsbury Publishing, published2002,→ISBN,page71:She and River looked at me hard; but I lowered my eyes and leaned forward, with the nonchalance turnedup to eleven, extinguished my cigarette, made eye-contact and nodded curtly.2008April, T. A. Pratt [pseudonym;Tim Pratt], chapter 15, inPoison Sleep, New York, N.Y.:Bantam Spectra,Bantam Dell,→ISBN,page267:But if we try to fly, especially carrying Zealand, we're going to be puking our guts out by the time we get all the way up there. Flying is like motion sickness turnedup to eleven,[…]2008,Robin Jones Gunn, chapter 14, inSisterchicks Go Brit!(A Sisterchicks Book), Colorado Springs, Colo.: Multnomah Books,Random House,→ISBN,page147:Oh, Lady Ebb, I'mup to eleventoday after that last biscuit.2010May 22, Shane Hegarty, “Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bone”, inThe Irish Times‎[1], Dublin: Irish Times,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon22 April 2016:It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turnedup to 11but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig.2013, Mark Mason, “In which We Waver over a Fry-up, Learn How a Stand at Liverpool FC’s Ground Got Its Name, and Experience Fear and Loathing in Bristol”, inMove Along, Please: Land’s End to John O’Groats by Bus, London:Random House Books,→ISBN,page73:As we reach the city today, rush hour has been turnedup to eleven, so there's plenty of waiting in traffic.2013May,Charles Baxter, “Loyalty”, inEllen Rosenbush, editor,Harper’s Magazine, volume326, number1956, New York, N.Y.:Harper’s Magazine Foundation,→ISSN,→OCLC,page81, column 1:[W]hen you look at conditions, it's not all happy days down there. Well, maybe it's happiernow. But what our textbook said? Was that they had, you know,tortureparties there. Once. Where torturers get drunk and turn the dialup to eleven.2014,Joseph O’Connor, chapter 9, inThe Thrill of it All, London:Harvill Secker,→ISBN,page154:It's not that London was unexciting. But I didn't understand it, felt lost. Its amp wentup to eleven.2015April 18,Helen Lewis, “If only the sci-fi writers who hijacked the Hugo awards had the wit to imagine a world beyond the Good Old Days”, inThe Guardian‎[2], London:Guardian News & Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe originalon10 September 2022:But because this is the internet, someone always has to pitch in and turn the hostilityup to 11.

Examples:

EN: Sitting at marble desks, ties done up to eleven, clicking their fingers to the Lighthouse Family, getting their dick sucked by an Alsatian.
ES: Sentados en escritorios de mármol. Con las corbatas arregladas hasta las once. Imitando con sus dedos a los Lighthouse Family, con pastores alemanes que se la chupan.
EN: You keep your tie done up to eleven otherwise all this grey office envy sludge will spill out.
ES: Tú mantienes tu corbata arreglada a las once. A parte de eso, esta oficina gris envidia hasta el fango. Echados a la calle.
EN: Mr Malcolm Tucker, turning it all the way up to eleven, down in the lobby.
ES: El Sr Malcolm Tucker, a nivel 11, en el lobby
EN: That adds up to eleven.
ES: Mientras tanto tenemos once votos.
EN: I turn everything up to eleven.
ES: Lo llevo todo hasta el límite
EN: My dad has dialled the Jewish up to eleven.
ES: Mi padre está explotando al máximo ser judío.
EN: OK. OK, we're up to eleven.
ES: Bien, ahora de 5 kg.
EN: Take it up to eleven!
ES: ¡Más rápido!
EN: It goes all the way up to eleven.
ES: ¡Puede llegar hasta el nivel 11!
EN: Nine, ten, coming up to eleven.
ES: Nueve, diez, llegando a la once.
EN: Dead! Okay. How about if I push it up to eleven hundred a month?
ES: Bueno. ¿Qué tal si lo subo a 1100 por mes?
EN: Social angst up to eleven.
ES: Angustia social hasta las once.
EN: When I say he has his Hollywood-ness dialed up to eleven in all its circuitous glory...
ES: Cuando digo que tiene un estilo hollywoodense en todo su esplendor...
EN: I replied, "My purr motor is very special because it goes up to eleven.
HI: मैं ने उठाते ही बोला, "व्हाट्स अ ग्रेट सरप्राइस, अभी तो 7 ही बजे हैं अर्चना.
EN: For children up to eleven years of age:
HI: 11 साल से कम उम्र के बच्चेः

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