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Meanings of up to their necks in English

Deeply involved.

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Usage of up to their necks in English
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Next the two men, still unconscious, were buried up to their necks.
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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.
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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
6
Soon afterwards, they were buried up to their necks and stoned to death.
The Guardian
7
The pair were each buried up to their necks on a Friday in Kandahar.
The forever war
8
Here they link arms in a line, with the sixty-two-degree water up to their necks.
The warrior elite: the forging of seal class 228
9
The troops waded the stream, which was up to their necks in the deepest part.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1
10
Others took refuge from the fire by standing up to their necks in the stream.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
11
Many took refuge from the fire by standing in the river, up to their necks.
With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
12
They dropped inside the house, and immediately found themselves up to their necks in water.
Afloat on the Flood
13
I felt that they stayed understaffed in order to keep themselves up to their necks.
Black Deutschland
14
There they stood, up to their necks in water.
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
15
They rushed into the water up to their necks.
The Voyage of the "Steadfast": The Young Missionaries in the Pac...
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It was just up to their necks in the deepest parts, shallowing to two feet below.
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden