to the brim

idiom

: to the top
He filled the glass to the brim.

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Your next outdoor bash or beachside hang deserves some attention to the cookware and coolers you’re bound up grilling with and using to stuff to the brim with ice and beverages. Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 11 July 2025 On the other hand, the show is a blockbuster, full to the brim with the kinds of people who go to big name museum shows. Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 13 June 2025 That arduous tome was stuffed to the brim with interpersonal conflict as the characters trudged through the woods, leaving the reader wondering if the end was truly in sight. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 May 2025 The abundant food is likely to fill the eater to the brim. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for to the brim

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“To the brim.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20the%20brim. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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