| English Dictionary |
TO THE HILT
| IPA (US): |  |
Dictionary entry overview: What does to the hilt mean?
• TO THE HILT (adverb)
The adverb TO THE HILT has 1 sense:
1. in full
Familiarity information: TO THE HILT used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In full
Synonyms:
to the hilt; to the limit
Context example:
you are in this to the hilt
Context examples
In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Silver, agile as a monkey even without leg or crutch, was on the top of him next moment and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt in that defenceless body.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Kill two birds with one stone." (English proverb)
"All dreams spin out from the same web." (Native American proverb, Hopi)
"Little by little you fill the sink and drop by drop you fill the barrel." (Catalan proverb)
"It's not only cooks that wear long knives." (Dutch proverb)
"All dreams spin out from the same web." (Native American proverb, Hopi)
"Little by little you fill the sink and drop by drop you fill the barrel." (Catalan proverb)
"It's not only cooks that wear long knives." (Dutch proverb)