full to the top

Januka hands me one of my own glasses, full to the top with vodka.

The seats were full to the top.

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.

Nationals Park on a chilly, moody night was just such living theater, performed by the Cubs and Nationals before a standing room audience, rowdier than any at Shakespeare’s Globe, full to the top rows with red-clad fans who would have paid a princely ransom just to know the last act — who lived, who died and how — before the first act ever began.

“The bayou is full to the top. Seeing all the water around the house, it’s crazy,” Wilson said.