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“At the top of one's lungs”in other languages

As loudly as you can.

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
Behind the words

Same idea, different pictures

English and Spanish go by the body: the lungs, or a wide-open throat, a todo gañote.

French à tue-tête sounds violent, “to kill the head”, but tuer here has an older sense of wearing out or deafening. It's shouting loud enough to split the listener's head.

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