Usage of "up to their necks"

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Uso de up to their necks en inglés

Next the two men, still unconscious, were buried up to their necks. 
 The Emancipatrix 

And all my staff officers were up to their necks in the battle. 
 Mr. Standfast 

Stand the sealed jars in tepid water up to their necks if possible. 
 Every Step in Canning: The Cold-Pack Method 

But they were there: buried in the sand up to their necks, drowned. 
 Cry for the strangers 

The ones who slept with blankets pulled up to their necks. 
 Blackbird 

Soon afterwards, they were buried up to their necks and stoned to death. 
 The Guardian 

The pair were each buried up to their necks on a Friday in Kandahar. 
 The forever war 

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 

The troops waded the stream, which was up to their necks in the deepest part. 
 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1 

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 

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 

They dropped inside the house, and immediately found themselves up to their necks in water. 
 Afloat on the Flood 

I felt that they stayed understaffed in order to keep themselves up to their necks. 
 Black Deutschland 

There they stood, up to their necks in water. 
 Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore 

They rushed into the water up to their necks. 
 The Voyage of the "Steadfast": The Young Missionaries in the Pac... 

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 

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