up to 11
English
Prepositional phrase
- Alternative form of up to eleven
- 2010, Shane Hegarty, "Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bone", The Irish Times, 22 May 2010:
- It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turned up to 11 but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig.
- 2012, Chris Richards, "Blade Is Set to Cut Other Wrestlers Down to Size", Brentwood Gazette, 15 August 2012:
- "All of our ring personas are elements of our real personalities, but turned up to 11."
- 2015, Helen Lewis, "If only the sci-fi writers who hijacked the Hugo awards had the wit to imagine a world beyond the Good Old Days", The Guardian, 18 April 2015:
- But because this is the internet, someone always has to pitch in and turn the hostility up to 11.
- 2010, Shane Hegarty, "Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bone", The Irish Times, 22 May 2010:
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