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Meanings of up to my neck in English

Deeply involved.

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Examples for "neck-deep"
1
Those who've lived upright lives and those who are neck-deep in sin.
Revival
2
Farmers desperate to save their cattle walk neck-deep in water pulling them along.
Reuters
3
A 14-year-old boy was killed, while others were left wading neck-deep in water.
The Guardian
4
Then he realized that the man was neck-deep in a hole.
The Anubis Gates
5
The streets were ankle-deep in dust or neck-deep in mud.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
1
You're up to your neck in water. And swimming is not required.
Reuters
2
From the sound of it, you're in it up to your neck.
Toxic bachelors
3
You're sitting up to your neck in shit if you haven't realized that!
The ice princess
4
The bastards would chain you in it up to your neck.
Cold springs
5
You'd be up to your neck in it before you knew where you were.
The Helpmate
1
The child put his hand up to her neck and kissed her.
No Name
2
She reached safety just as the water was up to her neck.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Torna...
3
Naomi was now up to her neck in steel-blue titanium and composite.
Glasslands
4
She was in whatever it was right up to her neck.
A touch of death
5
She rolled over, pulling a threadbare covering up to her neck.
Speaks the Nightbird
1
His brutal conclusion: Mr Morrison was up to his neck in it.
News.com.au
2
And Max was up to his neck in Kruger-Brent politics at home.
Mistress of the game
3
Tim put his hand up to his neck and felt about helplessly.
Gossamer
4
Vergil was in the tub, up to his neck in pinkish water.
Blood music
5
Vergil lay in the tub, up to his neck in pinkish water.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
1
We were in water up to our necks and were almost drowned.
After Long Years and Other Stories
2
And, indeed, we were up to our necks in business these days.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
3
And we're up to our necks in it all at the Hague.
The ministry of pain
4
And here we are, up to our necks in the tureen.
The Lost World
5
We could be up to our necks in a firefight at any second.'
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
1
Next the two men, still unconscious, were buried up to their necks.
The Emancipatrix
2
And all my staff officers were up to their necks in the battle.
Mr. Standfast
3
Stand the sealed jars in tepid water up to their necks if possible.
Every Step in Canning: The Cold-Pack Method
4
But they were there: buried in the sand up to their necks, drowned.
Cry for the strangers
5
The ones who slept with blankets pulled up to their necks.
Blackbird
Usage of up to my neck in English
1
I made for the lagoon, and went in up to my neck.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
2
The babble increased, and by night I was up to my neck.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
3
And I'm sitting up to my neck in a bank of sand.
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
4
I'm going to be in this fight right up to my neck.
The Man in the Twilight
5
You remember seein' me aloft, an' up to my neck in water.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
6
I lay in foam up to my neck and thought about her.
The Clown
7
Yes, sir, and up to my neck in salt water day and night.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
8
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...
9
I'm in it up to my neck and they know it.
The maltese falcon
10
I swear I am up to my neck in work.
The Precipice
11
Well, I'm up to my neck in work right now.
Wired
12
You know I'm up to my neck in this job.
Tales of Men and Ghosts
13
That water out thar is plumb up to my neck.
The Strange Case of Cavendish
14
Then I'm in my element, up to my neck, swimming.
The Guardian
15
Instead I was up to my neck in bones for the next two weeks.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
16
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...