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Definition: OVER HEAD AND EARS |
OVER HEAD AND EARS1. Beyond one's depth; completely; wholly; hopelessly; as, over head and ears in debt. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground. |
Debt | In debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties; incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved; fast tied up; insolvent; (not paying); minus, out of pocket. |
Depth | Adverb: beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears; mark twine, mark twain. |
Feeling | Adverb: heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels. |
Height | Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high. |
Love | Adjective: loving; Verb: fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten; attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed; Verb: in love; love-sick; over head and ears in love, head over heels in love. |
Redundancy | Adverb: over, too, over and above; overmuch, too much; too far; without measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with.. to spare; over head and ears; up to one's eyes, up to one's ears; extra; beyond the mark; (transcursion); acervatim. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expressions using "OVER HEAD AND EARS": be over head and ears in debt ♦ be over head and ears in love with ♦ over head and ears in love. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "OVER HEAD AND EARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | až po uši. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | velassa korviaan myöten (over head and ears in debt), silmittömästi rakastunut (over head and ears in love). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyakig (head over ears, over head), fülig (over ears, up to the chin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overay eadhay anday earsay pânã peste cap (up to the eye). (various references) upp över öronen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-d-e-e-e-h-n-o-r-r-s-v" | |
-5 letters: endeavored, overhanded, rehardened, soreheaded, verandahed. | |
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