Phrases & SayingsYouth, popular and digital culture
full up to Dolly's wax
Also: fed up to Dolly's wax
Completely full after eating, or thoroughly fed up.
In a sentence
After the second helping, I was full up to Dolly’s wax.
Where it came from
This old comic expression imagines fullness reaching as high as the wax in a doll’s head. It can describe being replete with food or thoroughly fed up.
- Initial era
- 1900–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established
- Use today
- Old-fashioned but remembered