<P> `` Up to eleven '' , also phrased as `` these go to eleven '' , is an idiom from popular culture , coined in the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap , where guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knob is marked from zero to eleven , instead of the usual zero to ten . The primary implication of the reference is one in which things that are essentially the same are seen as different , due to mislabeling or the user 's misunderstanding of the underlying operating principles . A secondary reference may be anything being exploited to its utmost limits , or apparently exceeding them . Similarly , the expression `` turning it up to eleven '' refers to the act of taking something to an extreme . In 2002 the phrase entered the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary with the definition `` up to maximum volume '' . </P>
<P> `` Up to eleven '' , also phrased as `` these go to eleven '' , is an idiom from popular culture , coined in the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap , where guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knob is marked from zero to eleven , instead of the usual zero to ten . The primary implication of the reference is one in which things that are essentially the same are seen as different , due to mislabeling or the user 's misunderstanding of the underlying operating principles . A secondary reference may be anything being exploited to its utmost limits , or apparently exceeding them . Similarly , the expression `` turning it up to eleven '' refers to the act of taking something to an extreme . In 2002 the phrase entered the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary with the definition `` up to maximum volume '' . </P>
where did turn it up to 11 come from
where did turn it up to 11 come from
the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap
the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap