full to the top

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Yet after one cleaning, two trash barrels remained full to the top, and a popular dumping ground, just a block away, was still fouled with trash.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2019

Now fill the crust full to the top.

From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)

The girl did as she was ordered, but the water drew the hole together, and the boot became full to the top.

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret

The trees grew close together, and the creek, full to the top, cooled the air; it was racing merrily along, several fine salmon on its surface.

From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

In this part of the river, the stream was full to the top of its banks, and in some places it overflowed them.

From Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Optic, Oliver