up to (one's) eyeballs (in something)
up to (one's) eyeballs (in something)
Extremely busy (with something); deeply or overly involved (in something); possessing, filled up with, or overwhelmed by an excessive amount (of something). There's no way I can take a vacation right now, I'm up to my eyeballs in work at the moment! I only intended to be peripherally involved in David's business venture, but, before I knew it, I was in up to my eyeballs! Dana was worried she wouldn't find any work as an accountant working for herself, but she's up to her eyeballs in clients!
See also: eyeball, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*up to one's eyeballs
(in something) Go to up to one's neck (in something).
See also: eyeball, up
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
up to your eyeballs
If you are up to your eyeballs in an unpleasant situation, you are very deeply involved in it. He was out of a job and up to his eyeballs in debt. I simply won't have the time — I'm up to my eyeballs in work.
See also: eyeball, up
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- up to (one's) armpits (in something)
- up to (one's) elbows (in something)
- up to (one's) eyes (in something)
- up to the eyeballs
- up to the eyeballs (in something)
- up to the eyes (in something)
- up to your armpits
- up to your elbows in
- up to your eyes in
- in control of