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Up to her neck   /əp tu hər nɛk/   Listen
Up to her neck

adjective
1.
Deeply involved.  Synonyms: neck-deep, up to his neck, up to my neck, up to our necks, up to their necks, up to your neck.  "Up to their necks in debt"






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"Up to her neck" Quotes from Famous Books



... precariously on one breast and part of a ribbon that had once been a belt. Discovering the catastrophe, she shrieked once and leaped into the pool any-which-way, covering her breasts with her hands and hiding in water up to her neck. ...
— Masters of Space • Edward Elmer Smith

... master, carrying the cows' tails tied up in a bundle on his back. When he came to the sea-shore, he stuck all the tails in the sand, and went and buried the one cow, whose tail he had not cut off, up to her neck, leaving the tail projecting. After he had got everything ready, he began to shriek and scream as before, till his master and all the other servants came running to ...
— The Grey Fairy Book • Various



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