to the hilt

Prepositional phrase

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 brim, all the way, from soup to nuts, in excelsis, to the backbone, to the bone, to the core, to the fullest, to the full, to the gills