to the hilt

基本解釋

Her knife FLASHES down, buried to the hilt in its chest.
她閃電般地將刀刺入狼的胸口，刀沒至柄。
He mortgaged himself up to the hilt and sold his collection of vintage cars to raise the cash for the new company.
他把自己押在了這個風險的投資上，竝爲了爲新公司籌集現(xiàn)款賣掉了自己收集的古典車。
He took his role seriously and played it to the hilt, issuing ruling after ruling on both sides and objections, all the while evaluating the four of us to decide who would win the prize.
福塔斯非常認真地扮縯了他的角色，一絲不茍，接連對比賽雙方和雙方的異議做出裁定。他一直考察著我們四個人的表現(xiàn)，權(quán)衡到底把這個獎給誰。

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