WordNet
adj. deeply involved; "neck-deep in work"; "up to their necks in debt" [syn: neck-deep, up to my neck, up to your neck, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to our necks]
Usage examples of "up to their necks".
Genial, brutal parents, up to their necks in collusion, determined on the rightness of their choices, in everything.
Vines hung into the blue water on all sides, giving the islands the appearance of hairy men submerged up to their necks.
Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters as noisome as a cesspool, till they were slimed and fouled almost up to their necks and stank in one another's nostrils.
Slaves stood up to their necks in the flood, tied to one another for safety.
The broad-headed tacks ran from end to end, up to their necks in the floorboards, holding just their heads above the surging, swirling coconut fibers.
Indeed, he did not care two straws whether they marched on until they were up to their necks.
After all, they were in this together - and up to their necks in it, at that!
Farther along the cave floor turned to mud, which they waded through up to their knees, then their waists, and finally almost up to their necks.
Some had marks up to their necks which even now emitted tiny trails of smoke.
Despite how their leather outfits went all the way up to their necks, the tight leather left little to the imagination.
I've got one trooper in a bad way and the grenadiers are up to their necks in wounded.