up to one's ears (in something)
- up to one's ears (in something)
*up to one's neck (in something) & *up to one's ears (in something) & *up to one's eyeballs (in something)
having a lot of something;
Fig. very much involved in something; immersed in something. (*Typically:
be \up to one's ears (in something)
; get \up to one's ears (in something).) •
I can't come to the meeting. I'm up to my neck in these reports.
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Mary is up to her ears in her work.
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I am up to my eyeballs in things to do! I can't do any more!
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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