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.

Adjective

up to here (in something)

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