The origin of filled to the gills comes from goldfish. They will eat and eat until they are stuffed to the gills and make themselves sick. They do not know when to stop eating. So stuffed to the gills is used as an expression for when one has eaten too much.
If you go fishing or even just go to the fish market, look down into a fish's mouth. You will see the gills on both sides and just after the gills in the oral cavity you will see the opening of the gullet. If you have a particularly well-fed fish, the gullet may show unswallowed food because the stomach is too full to hold more so, it is waiting to be swallowed. Humans don't have gills but the analogy can be appropriate when you feel you have swallowed more than your stomach can hold.
Someone's name I suspect. It is pronounced 'chae hyeon'.
The spelling of the plural noun is gills (organs that extract dissolved oxygen from the water).
Chalico is a traditional Mexican dish that originates from the country of Mexico. It is a type of flatbread typically made with corn masa and filled with various toppings like beans, cheese, and meat.
The idiom "stuffed to the gills" means that something is completely full or packed to its maximum capacity. It is often used to describe a situation where there is no more space left.
When sharks breathe they use gills, but the gills do not take in water the extract a type of oxygen and if the water gets filled with oil or other unnatural substances than the shark will die.
Squid use their gills to exchange gases, extracting oxygen from the water and releasing carbon dioxide. The gills are located inside the mantle cavity of the squid.
Fish remove oxygen from water with specialized respiratory organs called gills. Fish gills are made up of many folds of tissue and are filled with blood.When a fish swims, it takes water in through its mouth and then pushes the water back over its gills. In the gills, oxygen dissolved in the water moves into the fish's blood. Answers taken from 6th grade science book.
no, because then those gills gills would need gills and they would need gills and so on, so on. They have specialised cells instead.
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The word field originated from the farming industry. Due to a "field" being filled with a variety of produce I.e. a field of cabbages is filled with cabbages.
gills are structures in fish for breathing in water while gills chambers are the cavities in which gills are enclosed
Octopuses have gills, not lungs. They use their gills to extract oxygen from water, allowing them to breathe underwater.
Yes they have gills, but during their transformation into a frog they gain lungs and then lose their gills.
Sharks have gills so they can breathe. They absorb the oxygen out of the water using their gills.
Fish Use Gills Instead of lungs. Gills Help fish to Breath. Fish Use Gills Instead of lungs. Gills Help fish to Breath.
They have gills.