(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
Siddhartha	-	Sanskrit, Bengali
Georgene	jawr-JEEN, JAWR-jeen	English
Regina	rə-JEEN-ə (English), rə-GEEN-ə (English), rə-JIEN-ə (English), re-GEE-nah (German, Polish), re-JEE-nah (Italian), RE-gee-naw (Hungarian)	English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Norweg
ŞİRİN	-	Turkish
Zeru	-	Basque
Mitra (2)	-	Persian