When someone has eaten a lot and are very full.
Over-eaten; too full after a meal
"Stuffed to the gills" means that a person is very full, or satiated, from eating too much, because stuffed refers to being full of food or other things, while "to the gills" refers to a whole fish with stuffing in the body cavity up to behind the head where the gills are located.
The term is "stuffed to the gills" and is when someone ate too much and is overfull.
It is referring to a part of the fish, that is just under the head. A human equivalent would be the lower cheeks next to, and the upper throat under the mouth.
It is also used in the expression, he lookeda little green around thegills.
Stuffed up to the Gills means you have filled up your stomach and even your esophagus, and can't eat any more without looking a little green around the gills and maybe throwing up.
when you stuff a fish, as a flounder, with stuffing such as oyster or cornbread dressing, you gut the fish to its head and stuff it up to its gills -- jon kemp
not good
Picking flowers, do you love them or not, it NOT a phrase!
come to me. lets emabrase
Aviation etiquette.
From hell.
"Wishing for dreams to come true" is the gerund phrase.
I can't eat another bite, I am stuffed to the gills.
The origin of filled to the gills comes from goldfish. They will eat and eat until they are stuffed to the gills and make themselves sick. They do not know when to stop eating. So stuffed to the gills is used as an expression for when one has eaten too much.
Being full of food .
"Thank you" is the common phrase.
Hungary
Food of fish does not enters gills but pass on to gut, while water passes through gills.
Gills. Animals living in the water that do not come up for air use gills to breathe.
Those are its gills (e.g. for breathing). Salamanders such as the Axolotl have external gills, unlike internal gills found in fish.
No they are stuffed animals!
Turkey
It is not real fur that is used in stuffed animals. Nylon fabric is used and that makes it washable.
none because they never come up to the surface to breathe air and they dont have gills!