fishy about the gills Idiom

pissed to the gills

drunk, plastered, snapped He was pissed to the gills, so we sent him home in a taxi.

sloshed to the gills

very drunk, loaded, plastered, She was sloshed to the gills and singing very badly.

pale around the gills

Idiom(s): pale around the gills AND blue around the gills; green around the gills

Theme: HEALTH - POOR

looking sick. (Informal. The around can be replaced with about.)
• John is looking a little pale around the gills. What's wrong?
• Oh, I feel a little green about the gills.

green around the gills

blue around the gills

Stuffed to the gills

If someone is stuffed to the gills, they have eaten a lot and are very full.

fed to the gills|fed|fed to the teeth|gills|teeth

adj. phr. Having had too much of something; at the end of your patience; disgusted; bored; tired. People get fed up with anyone who brags all the time. I've had enough of his complaints. I'm fed up. He was fed to the teeth with television and sold his set to a cousin. John quit football because he was fed to the gills with practice.
Compare: SICK AND TIRED.

green around the gills|gills|green|pale|pale aroun

adj. phr., slang Pale-faced from fear or sickness; sickly; nauseated. Bill's father took him for a ride in his boat while the waves were rough, and when he came back he was green around the gills. The car almost hit Mary crossing the street, and she was pale around the gills because it came so close.

Also used with other prepositions besides "around", as "about", "at", "under", and with other colors, as "blue", "pink", "yellow", "white".

fed to the gills

fed to the gills
Also, fed to the teeth; fed up. Disgusted, unable or unwilling to put up with something. For example, I'm fed to the gills with these delays (the gills here is slang for “mouth”), or He was fed to the teeth with her excuses, or I'm fed up—let's leave right now. Of these colloquial expressions, fed up, alluding to being overfull from having overeaten, dates from about 1900, and the others from the first half of the 1900s. Also see up to one's ears.

gills

gills
see fed to the gills; green about the gills.