up to one's eyeballs (in something)

up to one's eyeballs (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 eyeballs (in something); get \up to one's eyeballs (in something).) •

I can't come to the meeting. I'm up to my neck in these reports.

Mary is up to her ears in her work.

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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