up to their necks

Questions about up to their necks

What does up to their necks mean?

up to their necks means "deeply involved".

What is another word for up to their necks?

Close synonyms include neck-deep, up to my neck, up to your neck, up to her neck, up to his neck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is up to their necks a common word?

up to their necks is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for up to their necks come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.