Usage of "up to my neck"

Deeply involved.

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Usage of up to my neck in English

I made for the lagoon, and went in up to my neck. 
 The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 

The babble increased, and by night I was up to my neck. 
 The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 

And I'm sitting up to my neck in a bank of sand. 
 The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 

I'm going to be in this fight right up to my neck. 
 The Man in the Twilight 

You remember seein' me aloft, an' up to my neck in water. 
 The Mutiny of the Elsinore 

I lay in foam up to my neck and thought about her. 
 The Clown 

Yes, sir, and up to my neck in salt water day and night. 
 The Mutiny of the Elsinore 

I am up to my neck here in Stirling's Spanish books. 
 Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C... 

I'm in it up to my neck and they know it. 
 The maltese falcon 

I swear I am up to my neck in work. 
 The Precipice 

Well, I'm up to my neck in work right now. 
 Wired 

You know I'm up to my neck in this job. 
 Tales of Men and Ghosts 

That water out thar is plumb up to my neck. 
 The Strange Case of Cavendish 

Then I'm in my element, up to my neck, swimming. 
 The Guardian 

Instead I was up to my neck in bones for the next two weeks. 
 Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead 

Faith, though, I'm not going to wait here till it's up to my neck! 
 Five Weeks in a Balloon / Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa... 

Meanings of up to my neck in English