What is "to the gills"

Usage examples of "to the gills".

At the stranger's urging they fought it and quickly discovered that indeed the nostrils acted as a kind of bellows, and the water intake went not to the chest but to the gills.

Well, what if a cow's extra stomach is stuffed to the gills to begin with?

Fleur was dressed to the gills today in her version of a cowgirl outfit.

The inside and outside of the ranch house were decorated to the gills with more lights than Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras.

The driver was teaed to the gills and on a livewire edge and her sudden scream scared the living hell out of him.

But here he is on a beach in the Sultanate of Kinakuta, down below Tom Howard's personal citadel, dipped in sunblock and Dramamined to the gills, getting ready to return.

There's a lot of slogging, dead ends, and more red herrings than you would ever want to cope with in your lifeand this case is loaded to the gills with those stinking fish.

Besides, he'd already stuffed her to the gills with spaghetti, lots of Parmesan on top, and hot garlic bread that wasn't nearly as good as Martha's.

The fact that William Wharton had been doped to the gills when Percy shot him never came out, either.

He was alluding to a mutual friend of ours of the name of Gussie Fink-Nottle, who, hounded by the aged relative into undertaking this task in the previous summer, had got pickled to the gills and made an outstanding exhibition of himself, setting up a mark at which all future orators would shoot in vain.