up to 11

up to 11

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

     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 August 15, Chris Richards, “Blade Is Set to Cut Other Wrestlers Down to Size”, in Brentwood Gazette:

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

   • 2015 April 18, 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”, in The Guardian:

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