up to their necks

ADJECTIVE
  1. deeply involved
    up to their necks in debt
    neck-deep in work
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How To Use up to their necks In A Sentence

  • They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale.
  • They wallow in the coolness of mud up to their necks in estuarial water.
  • How come the same people who call same-sex marriage immoral are so often up to their necks in heterosexual hanky-panky?
  • The black market was flourishing, everybody was corrupt, in it up to their necks, and the Yanks were shipping out stuff by the truckload. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • They were all treading through ankle-deep snow in the parking-lot, holding their jackets up to their necks against the piercing gale.
  • Then they were taken to the cemetery outside the city. They were buried up to their necks, standing straight up, with only their heads above ground.
  • Three skinny old women, "disgraces," I may almost call them, for certainly they could not be classified under the designation of "graces," were sitting in a row with steaming water up to their necks, undergoing the process of being boiled. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm
  • The first crew was able to warn another team of miners working behind them, who waded to safety in water up to their necks.
  • Yes | No | Report from grover_dog wrote 15 weeks 19 hours ago is it just me or am I missing something? why in allot of photos are thp eople in the water with the fish up to their necks or in other shots completely wet like they just wrestled the fish, and boy do they hold em tight in those shots they don't mind gettign a lttle wet or slimey. The Cult of the Wels: Catching Giant, 200-Plus Pound Catfish in European Rivers
  • This is what I have learnt: 1. Evil Conservative opposition politicians are mired up to their necks in sleaze 2. Labour ministers praised for their "fugal" lifestyles. yes really! CHANGE THE POLITICIANS
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