Completely full; teeming; having no room to spare. I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is full to the gills! Her mind was full to the gills with ideas for her new book. I felt full to the gills after my grandmother's Thanksgiving meal.
Completely full; teeming; having no room to spare. I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is packed to the gills! Her mind was packed to the gills with ideas for her new book. I felt packed to the gills after my grandmother's Thanksgiving meal.
To be thoroughly intoxicated by drugs, especially those prescribed by a doctor, to the point of incoherence or senselessness. I was doped to the gills for about two weeks after my surgery. I'm off the painkillers now, but I still feel pretty out of it.
To be thoroughly inebriated; to be drunk to the point of incoherence, senselessness, or the loss of self-control. I hate being in New Orleans during Mardi Gras—an appalling number of people are sloshed to the gills!
Thoroughly intoxicated by drugs, especially those prescribed by a doctor, to the point of incoherence or senselessness. I was doped to the gills for about two weeks after my surgery. I'm off the painkillers now, but I still feel pretty out of it.
Thoroughly inebriated; drunk to the point of incoherence, senselessness, or the loss of self-control. I hate being in New Orleans during Mardi Gras—an appalling number of people are sloshed to the gills!
To be completely full or teeming; to have no room to spare. I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is stuffed to the gills! Her mind was stuffed to the gills with ideas for her new book.
Completely full; teeming; having no room to spare. I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is stuffed to the gills! Her mind was stuffed to the gills with ideas for her new book. I felt stuffed to the gills after my grandmother's Thanksgiving meal.
Hung-over. A: "How are you feeling after your night of partying?" B: "Ugh, fishy about the gills—I've been throwing up all morning!"
Drunk. Boy, you were really up to the gills last night—how hungover do you feel this morning? You're up to the gills, stumbling in here reeking of alcohol!
Pale, typically due to nausea or fear. I get terrible motion sickness, so I'm sure I was a little white around the gills when I stumbled off the plane. I was white around the gills for a while after my brother jumped out of the closet and scared me.
Nauseated. After all that drinking last night, I sure am green about the gills today. The steady rocking of the boat caused Colleen to be green about the gills.
Nauseated. After all that drinking last night, I sure am green around the gills today. The steady rocking of the boat caused Colleen to be green around the gills.
To be nauseated. After all that drinking last night, I sure am green around the gills today. The steady rocking of the boat caused Colleen to be green around the gills.
To be nauseated. After all that drinking last night, I sure am green about the gills today. The steady rocking of the boat caused Colleen to be green about the gills.
Irritated, exasperated, bored, or disgusted with someone or something. I'm getting really fed to the gills listening to all your complaining! My wife is fed to the gills with our car, but we just can't afford a new one.
Completely, utterly, or thoroughly. I was doped to the gills for about two weeks after my surgery. I'm off the painkillers now, but I still feel pretty out of it. I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is packed to the gills! We left the all-you-can-eat buffet full to the gills.
1. Nauseated. After all that drinking last night, I sure am blue around the gills today. The steady rocking of the boat caused Colleen to be blue around the gills.
2. Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really blue around the gills!
1. Completely full; teeming; having no room to spare. I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is loaded to the gills! Her mind was loaded to the gills with ideas for her new book. My stomach felt loaded to the gills after my grandmother's Thanksgiving meal.
2. Thoroughly intoxicated with drugs or alcohol, especially to the point of incoherence, senselessness, or the loss of self-control. I hate being in New Orleans during Mardi Gras—everyone just getting loaded to the gills for a week solid. I was loaded to the gills with painkillers for about two weeks after my surgery. I'm off the meds now, but I still feel pretty out of it.
Exceptionally pale, as due to nausea or fear. I get terrible motion sickness, so I'm sure I was a little pale around the gills when I stumbled off the plane. She was really pale around the gills after that car nearly ran into her on the sidewalk.
Sl. intoxicated. He's loaded to the gills. Man, he's loaded to the barrel and fighting mad.
Fig. looking sick. (The around can be replaced with about.) John is looking a little pale around the gills. What's wrong? Oh, I feel a little green about the gills.
Also, fed to the teeth; fed up. Disgusted, unable or unwilling to put up with something. For example, I'm fed to the gills with these delays (the gills here is slang for "mouth"), or He was fed to the teeth with her excuses, or I'm fed up-let's leave right now. Of these colloquial expressions, fed up, alluding to being overfull from having overeaten, dates from about 1900, and the others from the first half of the 1900s. Also see up to one's ears.
Also, green around the gills. Looking ill or nauseated, as in After that bumpy ride she looked quite green about the gills. The use of green to describe an ailing person's complexion dates from about 1300, and gills has referred to the flesh around human jaws and ears since the 1600s. Although in the 1800s white and yellow were paired with gills to suggest illness, the alliterative green has survived them.
If someone looks green around the gills, they look ill, as if they are going to vomit. Kenny stumbled out from the washroom looking rather green around the gills. Note: The gills of a fish are the organs it uses to breathe instead of lungs. This is being used as a humorous term for the mouth.
A person's gills are the fleshy parts between the jaw and the ears: this sense of the word dates from the early 17th century. Other colours are occasionally used to indicate a sickly appearance; much less common is rosy about the gills indicating good health.
(informal) completely full: I was stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake.
Gills are the openings on the side of a fish's head that it breathes through.
(informal) looking or feeling as if you are going to be sick, especially at sea; seasick: You look a bit green about the gills. Go up on deck and get some fresh air.
1. mod. ill; nauseated. How about a little air? I feel a little green around the gills.
2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Marty—now thoroughly green around the gills—slid neatly under the table, and everyone pretended not to notice.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. He's loaded to the gills. Couldn't see a hole in a ladder. Those guys are loaded to the barrel and are getting mean.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. When I get stewed to the gills, I usually fall asleep, right then and there. Here's old Charlie—stewed to the ears, as always.
As full as possible; completely.
Eso no quita, sin embargo, que no existiera un calco tematico, por cuanto debemos cuestionar hasta un limite la respuesta de Karl Alfred Bluher: "Por lo que se refiere a las obras dramaticas del chileno Huidobro, su obra Gilles de Raiz (1932), escrita en frances, y su espanola 'comedia pequeno guinol' En la luna (1934), es incuestionable el caracter vanguardista de estas influido por Jarry, Pirandello, el futurismo y el cubismo; una influencia de las concepciones de Artaud en la dramaturgia de estas obras no puede, por el contrario, comprobarse en ningun caso" (34).
Hand of God: French baker Gilles Zidane shows off one of his sublime creations at his shop in the Great Western Arcade, Birmingham.
La de Michel Tournier sobre Gilles de Rais, aunque menos profunda que la de Lanza, no deja por ello de ser menos inquietante.
Lombardo & Gilles Office Manager Tina Hamby added, "Before we had Worldox, one of our attorneys spent hours trying to find three documents he had created, and when he couldn't find them, he had to recreate them.
The singer has been granted a restraining order against Gilles, who is suing Mel B for portraying her as a "home-wrecker".
If Cannes is filmmakers heaven, then GILLES JACOB WOULD BE SOME KIND OF SAINT PETER WAITING for you at the top of the stairs of heaven's gate.
While the price of gasoline and growing environmental concerns are putting pressure on vehicle manufacturers when it comes to big vehicles like the Ram pickup, Gilles is not apologetic, explaining that for a number of people, the vehicle is "very relevant" (to say nothing of being extremely important to the corporation).
Big clubs are great but I like playing to small, intimate crowds," says Gilles.
Like the works of Jean-Luc Godard, Nagisa Oshima and Richard Lester, Gilles Groulx's first feature rejected traditional production practices and dealt with the political and social issues that were galvanizing young people everywhere.
WITH HOMOEROTICISM OFTEN DRIPPING from their brush strokes, French artists Pierre et Gilles are masters of titillation: Think melancholy French sailor and handsome stranger clinched in a steamy embrace.
HEARTS hope to tempt Gilles Rousset into staying at Tynecastle by offering him a coaching role.
Now Gilles Mimouni has been hired as the creative genius behind the campaign, due to start on television in October.
Life has names like Siobhan, Brian, Millie, Scarpota, French Chris, Gilles, Gotscho, Geno, Amanda, Alf Bold, Ric and Randy, Kee, Inoue, Nyoro, Chisato, Tamika and Cee-lo, David, Dieter, Kiki, Cookie and Vittorio and Max, Suzanne, and Jimmy Paul.
Gilles BOGAERT is appointed Deputy Managing Director in charge of Finance, replacing Emmanuel BABEAU who decided to leave the Group.