Meaning of to the tonsils | Babel Free

Definitions

Entirely, completely, extremely, to the greatest degree.

figuratively, idiomatic, informal, postpositional

Equivalents

Examples

“He was stuffed to the tonsils with cream crackers.”

“They sat there, robed up to the tonsils, and made me feel⟳ so below a juvenile delinquent.”

“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 fed to 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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