knee-deep
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See also: kneedeep
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English kne-depe, equivalent to knee + deep.
Adjective[edit]
knee-deep (not comparable)
- Reaching up to the knees.
- Submerged to the knees.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 241:
- This gave me a hint, and I went knee-deep, and sometimes neck-deep, in the Red Weed. The density of the weed gave me a reassuring sense of hiding.
- (figuratively, by extension) Deeply involved in something, or preoccupied with something.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
reaching up to the knees
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