up to 11

English

Prepositional phrase

up to 11

1. Alternative form of up to eleven
   • 2010, Shane Hegarty, "Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bone", The Irish Times, 22 May 2010:

     It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turned up to 11 but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig.

   • 2012, Chris Richards, "Blade Is Set to Cut Other Wrestlers Down to Size", Brentwood Gazette, 15 August 2012:

     "All of our ring personas are elements of our real personalities, but turned up to 11."

   • 2015, Helen Lewis, "If only the sci-fi writers who hijacked the Hugo awards had the wit to imagine a world beyond the Good Old Days", The Guardian, 18 April 2015:

     But because this is the internet, someone always has to pitch in and turn the hostility up to 11.