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filled to the brim
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
The shelves, as the book shows, are filled to the brim with collectibles, many of them part of the collection of Black culture, which her friend James Brown first helped her curate.
Still, some consumers went home with multiple bags and, in one instance, a cart filled to the brim, per a video on TikTok.
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.
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