up to one's ears

到了耳边到了耳朵里到了耳根到耳朵

up to one's ears 的定义

  1. Also, in up to one's eyes or eyeballs or neck. Deeply involved; also, oversupplied, surfeited. For example, I'm up to my ears in work, or He's in up to his eyes with the in-laws. This hyperbolic and slangy idiom implies one is flooded with something up to those organs. The first was first recorded in 1839; up to the eyes in 1778; to the eyeballs in 1911; to the neck in 1856.

up to one's ears 近义词

up to one's ears

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更多up to one's ears例句

  1. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
  5. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
  8. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  9. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  10. Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.