as much as possible

Adverb

 * 1) As much as is possible.

Usage notes
This is not an idiom. It is a particularly common instance of the general construction: "as X as Y", where both X and Y have a large range of possibilities. X can be an adjectival, an adverbial, or a quantifier determiner (much, little, many, few) and Y can a clauses or an ellipsis of a clause. The full clause for which "possible" is an ellipsis depends on the preceding verb. "He ate as much as possible " is an ellipsis for "He ate as much as it was possible for him to eat ." When Y is a noun ("He ate as much as John ."), the ellipsis is still for a clause ("He ate as much as John ate .").

Translations

 * Arabic: قَدْر اَلْمُسْتَطَاع, قَدْر اَلْإِمْكَان
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 盡可能
 * Finnish: niin paljon kuin mahdollista, mahdollisimman paljon
 * French: ,
 * Galician: todo o posíbel
 * German: so viel wie möglich, möglichst viel
 * Hebrew: ככל האפשר
 * Hindi: जितना हो सके, जितना हो सकें
 * Hungarian: minél többet, amennyit csak lehet, a lehető legtöbbet;  minél inkább, minél jobban, amennyire csak lehet
 * Ido: tam multa kam posible
 * Japanese: できるだけ, 有らん限り,
 * Ottoman Turkish: ممكن مرتبه
 * Persian: تا جای امکان, حتی‌الامکان
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: todo o possível, o máximo possível
 * Romanian: cât de mult posibil
 * Russian: как мо́жно бо́льше
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: što je više moguće
 * Spanish: todo lo posible
 * Swedish: så mycket som det går,
 * Tagalog: hanggang maaari
 * Telugu: వీలైనంతవరకు
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: càng thêm càng tốt, nhiều nhất có thể
 * Volapük: