fed to the gills
fed to the gills
Irritated, exasperated, bored, or disgusted with someone or something. I'm getting really fed to the gills listening to all your complaining! My wife is fed to the gills with our car, but we just can't afford a new one.
See also: fed, gill
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
fed to the gills
Also, fed to the teeth; fed up. Disgusted, unable or unwilling to put up with something. For example, I'm fed to the gills with these delays (the gills here is slang for "mouth"), or He was fed to the teeth with her excuses, or I'm fed up-let's leave right now. Of these colloquial expressions, fed up, alluding to being overfull from having overeaten, dates from about 1900, and the others from the first half of the 1900s. Also see up to one's ears.
See also: fed, gill
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
fed to the gills
Thoroughly disgusted. This American version of the earlier British fed to the (back) teeth and fed (up) to the eyelids is based on the slang meaning of gills for the human mouth.
See also: fed, gill
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- fed up
- fed up (with someone or something)
- I'm (really) fed up (with someone or something)
- I'm fed up
- fed to the teeth
- hell with that!
- to hell with
- To hell with that!