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filled to the brim
Idioms and Phrases
As full as possible; also, completely satisfied. For example, We're filled to the brim with excitement . This expression transfers the idea of a container filled to the very top. W.S. Gilbert used it in the comic opera The Mikado (1885): “Three little maids from school are we, Filled to the brim with girlish glee.†[c. 1600]Example Sentences
A video recorded earlier that day by Dudelson shows him panning across a room filled to the brim with records: “God-willing, all this stuff survives,†he says calmly while navigating the maze of boxes.
Last June, on a sweaty summer evening, in our 550-square-foot Brooklyn apartment filled to the brim with towers of stacked moving boxes, my partner and I took a final appraisal of what our cross-country move to New York City had officially cost us.
Our dining table was always filled to the brim with an elaborate spread of homemade entrees and sweets.
From immersive, poetic installations to ceramics and filmed performance, the Central District art space Wa Na Wari is — as usual — filled to the brim with engaging, in situ art.
“The history book of the Dodgers is already filled to the brim with so many things,†Langill said.
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