(in) up to (one's) eye(ball)s

Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

(in) up to (one's) eye(ball)s

Extremely busy; deeply involved or engrossed (in or with something). I'd love to come for a pint, but I'm in up to my eyeballs with work for my class on Monday. John has been up to his eyes with the kids lately.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kalin	-	Bulgarian
Steafan	-	Scottish
Augustin	o-goos-TEN (French)	French, Czech, Romanian, Croatian, German
Susanna	soo-ZAHN-nah (Italian), SOO-sahn-nah (Finnish), soo-ZAN-ə (English)	Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic
Ji-Young	jee-yung	Korean
Emmanouel	-	Biblical Greek