Examples of use of (up) to the hilt
1. A few days after her triumphant return to the homeland, she got together with officials of a local people‘s committee and told them to carry through the President‘s line of state building (up) to the hilt.
2. Cherie cashes in on husband‘s fame with 1.5million memoirs‘ deal Will she take the opportunity to bury the blade (up) to the hilt in the back of Gordon Brown, her husband‘s successor as PM, and for more than a decade her personal nemesis?
3. The discomfort level was astonishing, but losing the suit was like coming out of a prison." The 1'88 movie was turned into a stage musical, in which Edna has traditionally been played by a man and camped (up) to the hilt.
4. The author of the article goes on: The three principles of national reunification, the ten–point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo put forward by Kim Il Sung are an immortal programme of reunification which the Korean nation should implement (up) to the hilt in accomplishing the cause of national reunification as they are the three charters for national reunification which give an integral systemization and consummation of the basic principles and ways of national reunification.
5. The Cabinet planned and conducted economic work with main stress on increasing grain production, completing major objects of construction and of reconstruction and modernization and rejuvenating overall industrial production in reliance upon the already built economic foundation by concentrating and mobilizing all potentials of the country, while implementing (up) to the hilt the line of economic construction in the era of Songun under the wise leadership of the Workers‘ Party of Korea, the reporter said, and continued:. Last year witnessed successes bigger than those achieved in previous few years in the field of socialist economic construction, thanks to the patriotic endeavors of the army and people who rose up in hearty response to the joint slogan of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the WPK calling for glorifying the 60th anniversary of the WPK as a grand festival of victors.