to the core

Idioms and Phrases

see rotten to the core .

Example Sentences

They can hardly be unaware that Gen. Mark Milley, who served as the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman under Trump, described him as “fascist to the core.”

From Salon

I went there, I learned to love the peasants, the bombing shocked my psyche and soul to the core, and I responded — not because I was hopeful or hopeless, but because I was alive.”

From Salon

Elements of that assessment were echoed by the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now-retired Gen. Mark Milley, who told Watergate journalist and author Bob Woodward that he considered Trump “fascist to the core.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Letbys wrote they were were "shocked to the core" when they first read the "sickening allegations" against their daughter.

From BBC

“Bill got to the core of Johnny as much as anybody was going to, but he was in many ways an inscrutable guy.”

From Los Angeles Times