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

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(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
Callum	KAL-um	Scottish
Rajesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Bozhidar	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian, Medieval Slavic
Deon	-	English, African American
Zakiah	-	Arabic
Shakir	-	Arabic