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Up to their necks   /əp tu ðɛr nɛks/   Listen
Up to their necks

adjective
1.
Deeply involved.  Synonyms: neck-deep, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to my neck, up to our necks, up to your neck.  "Up to their necks in debt"






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"Up to their necks" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon me, I was allowed my liberty, and, in spite of my wretched plight, I became interested in observing the natives at their daily occupations, one of which consisted in the capture of wild-fowl from a lagoon close to the camp by the ingenious method of floating upon their quarry submerged up to their necks in water, their heads covered by a mass of weeds and bulrushes. When among the birds they suddenly drew some of them under the surface without appearing to ...
— Adventures in Southern Seas - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century • George Forbes



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