“At the top of one's lungs”in other languages
As loudly as you can.
English
French
Spanish
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.
More sayings in other languages
- Avoid like the plague
- Bail someone out
- Bang one's head against a brick wall
- Bark up the wrong tree
- Be bone idle
- Be in the know
- Be scared stiff
- Be taken for a ride
- Beat around the bush