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in over one's head (в работе, в делах Bullfinch); head and ears; head over ears; up to the ears (в работе и т. п.); up to the neck; over head and ears (in love, in debt; влюблённый, в долгу); up to the chin; up to the eyebrows; up to one's eyeballs (up to one's neck/ears/eyeballs (in something) to have a lot of something, to be much involved/busy with something I have been up to my ears in work for several weeks now. I am up to my neck in work at the moment and won't be able to attend the dinner tonight. ICC. (in) up to (one's) eye(ball)s: Extremely busy; deeply involved or engrossed (in or with something). I'd love to come for a pint, but I'm in up to my eyeballs with work for my class on Monday. John has been up to his eyes with the kids lately. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015. Used to emphasize the extreme degree of an undesirable situation or condition. ‘he's up to his eyeballs in debt' More example sentences: ‘It is all right to be flooded up to your eyeballs, it is happening in Spain and France.' ‘There's nothing very glitzy or glamorous about struggling to put up a big tent in a high wind with freezing rain trickling down your neck and mud up to your eyeballs.' ‘Most humans do not find themselves up to their eyeballs in situations like this.'  oxforddictionaries.com Alexander Demidov); up to the hilt (Anglophile); up to one's, the neck; all over (в чём-либо fa158); head over heels; up to one's eyes; over head and ears; head over ears (in love, in debt; влюблённый, в долгу); up to the ears; above one's eyeballs (Taras) |
