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up to the tonsils

up to the tonsils is the alternative form of to the tonsils.

Meaning of to the tonsils

Prepositional phrase

  1. (figuratively, idiomatic, informal, postpositional) Entirely, completely, extremely, to the greatest degree.
    • He was stuffed to the tonsils with cream crackers.

Questions about up to the tonsils

What is up to the tonsils the alternative form of?
Up to the tonsils is the alternative form of to the tonsils.

Words near up to the tonsils in the dictionary

  1. up to the hammer
  2. up to the hub
  3. up to the knocker
  4. up to the mark
  5. up to the nines
  6. up to the tonsils
  7. up to time
  8. up top
  9. up until
  10. up what spring
  11. up with the chickens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up to the tonsils (page history and authors); to the tonsils (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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