The word 'hilt' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the handle of a sword, knife, or dagger. For example, you could write, "The knight held his sword by the hilt."
David Cameron In an attempt to step up the pressure on Labour leader Ed Miliband on tax, the prime minister will say the new law will help voters to choose between the Tories, who say they have cut income tax for 26m people, and Labour, which, he claims, taxed people "to the hilt".
A London couple could have borrowed to the hilt in the boom – but they will have been kept afloat by the bubble in the capital.
"When it comes to your tax bill: do you trust the people who taxed you to the hilt when they were in power and still haven't come clean about the taxes they want to increase next time round?
This remarkable shortfall of charity has a great deal to do, I think, with the Texan's almost Putinesque macho self-presentation.Over the years, Mr Perry has played the part of a Texan man's man to the hilt.
Big stockmarket participants have also borrowed to the hilt.
Iran has backed Mr Assad to the hilt with arms, fuel, military advisers and billions of dollars in cash, along with the supply of thousands of Shia fighters from Iraq and Lebanon.
Ford, which had mortgaged itself to the hilt three years earlier, only narrowly escaped the same fate.The double-whammy of petrol at $4 a gallon in the summer of 2008 rapidly followed by the freezing of the credit markets after the Lehman Brothers bust had finally brought America's native car industry to its knees.
Those who want to play fast and loose with home loans, borrowing to the hilt, should not expect a subsidy.
But in general, households have not borrowed to the hilt against those capital gains.
Others, especially in Israel, caution against seeing Mr Rohani in too gentle a light.It is also generally assumed that he will back Syria's embattled president, Bashar Assad, to the hilt, as his predecessor and the ruling establishment have done.
In January, he turned himself in, paying more than €3m ($3.9m) in back taxes.In this section Letta in post Balkan breakthrough Rainbow warriors Islamists in Russia Mortgaged to the hilt Uli, Uli, Uli Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon… ReprintsSuch a course normally assures tax sinners amnesty.
