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UP TO THE EARS

Definition: UP TO THE EARS

UP TO THE EARS

1. Deeply submerged; almost overwhelmed; as, to be in trouble up to one's ears. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: UP TO THE EARS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Completeness	Throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as.. as can be.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expressions: UP TO THE EARS

Expressions using "UP TO THE EARS": be up to the ears in ♦ be up to the ears in debt. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: UP TO THE EARS

Language		Translations for "UP TO THE EARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jam deri në buzë në (be steeped, be up to the ears in). (various references)

Bulgarian		затънал съм до ушите в дългове (be up to the ears in debt). (various references)

Czech		být zadlužený po uši (be up to the ears in debt), být zadlužený až po uši (be up to the ears in debt). (various references)

Hungarian		fülig adósságban úszik (be up to the ears in debt). (various references)

Pig Latin		upay otay ethay earsay

Russian		погрязать в (be up to the ears in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		biti do guše u dugovima (be up to the ears in debt). (various references)

Turkish		işi başından aşkın. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: UP TO THE EARS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-o-p-r-s-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: ephorates, operettas, poetaster, superheat.
	-3 letters: apterous, earthset, ephorate, euphroes, operates, operetta, outhears, outrates, outstare, outsteer, peartest, phaseout, phorates, postheat, preheats, pretaste, proettes, prostate, protease, rheostat, superhot, taphouse, teahouse, theaters, theatres, treetops, turpeths, upsetter, upstater.
	-4 letters: aethers, austere, authors, earshot, esparto, estreat, euphroe, hatters, heaters, heptose, heteros, hotspur, operate, outeats, outhear, outrate, outsert, pasture.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Bibliography

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