up to here

English

Alternative forms

• Variously up to one's eyeballs, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, up to one's neck, etc.

Prepositional phrase

up to here

1. (idiomatic) overwhelmed, busy, buried or swamped

   I have been up to here in paperwork all week.

   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, chapter 12

     They have their lives to live and I'm up to here in disgust with mine.

Translations

overwhelmed, swamped

• Finnish: kaulaa myöten
• French: jusqu'au cou /lit: up to the neck/

• Russian: по́ у́ши (ru) (pó úši) /lit: up to one's ears/
• Spanish: hasta el gorro

See also

• have had it up to here