up to one's ears 的定义
- 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
等同于 busy
up to one's ears 的近义词 33 个
- active
- unavailable
- working
- buried
- employed
- engaged
- engrossed
- hustling
- occupied
- overloaded
- persevering
- slaving
- snowed
- swamped
- already taken
- assiduous
- at it
- diligent
- having a full plate
- having enough on one's plate
- having fish to fry
- having many irons in the fire
- in a meeting
- in conference
- in someone else's possession
- in the field
- in the laboratory
- industrious
- on assignment
- on duty
- on the go
- tied up
- with a customer
up to one's ears 的反义词 7 个
更多up to one's ears例句
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- In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
- The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
- Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
- What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
- He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
- There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
- Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.