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to the hilt en · ADP

Meanings

1. Completely, fully, to one's limit.
   • You can't expect him to spare any more money, because he's borrowed up to the hilt from the bank for his new apartment.
   • This paradox—that a peaceful European settlement was taking shape even as the two Great Powers of the day were arming themselves to the hilt and preparing for the eventuality of a thermonuclear war—was not so bizarre as it might appear. 2005, Tony Judt, “The Politics of Stability”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:

Synonyms

to the gills · to the brim · to the brim · top to bottom · up to eleven · to the tonsils · all the way · to the fullest · to the hilt · from soup to nuts · to the marrow · to the nines · to the backbone · to the top of one's bent · to the core · to the bone · to the nth degree · to the gunnels · to the max · in excelsis · to the full