up to the hilt Идиома
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adv. phr. To the limit; as far as possible; completely.
The other boys on the team told Tom he couldn't quit. They said, "You're in this to the hilt." The Smith's house is mortgaged up to the hilt. Compare: HEART AND SOUL, TO THE FULL, UP TO THE --- IN.
to the hilt
As abundant or to the greatest amount possible; absolutely or utterly. They've had to borrow to the base to get the aggregation off the ground. We're accessible to avert our applicant to the base in court.Learn more: hiltto the hilt
Also, up to the hilt. Completely, to the best degree, as in The abode was mortgaged up to the hilt. This argot alludes to the handle ( hilt) of a sword, the alone allocation that charcoal out aback the weapon is plunged all the way in. The allegorical use of the appellation was aboriginal recorded in 1687. Learn more: hiltto the hilt
or up to the hilt
COMMON
1. If you do article to the hilt or up to the hilt, you do it to the greatest accessible extent. He'll be a acceptable candidate. We'll aback him up to the hilt. If Fred raises this affair tomorrow, I'll avert my accomplishments to the hilt.
2. If you borrow money to the hilt or up to the hilt, you borrow as abundant as possible. The aggregation had adopted to the base and still bare added capital. His father's estates were mortgaged up to the hilt. Note: The base of a brand or knife is its handle. The angel actuality is of a knife or brand actuality pushed in all the way to the handle. Learn more: hilt(up) to the hilt
completely. The angel is that of coast the brand of a knife acutely into something, so that alone the base is visible.Learn more: hilt(up) to the ˈhilt
(support, etc. somebody) completely: I will abutment you to the base on this.This announcement refers to the abounding breadth of a sword, up to its handle (= the hilt).Learn more: hilt to the hilt
To the limit; completely: played the role to the hilt.Learn more: hiltup to the hilt
To the utmost. The base is the handle of a artful or sword; aback the weapon is plunged all the way into something, alone the base stays out. The term, additionally put as to the hilt, was transferred to added kinds of acute by the seventeenth century. “The acreage was mortgaged up to the hilt,” wrote James Payn (Thicker than Water, 1883). Learn more: hilt, up