up to your neck

1. 1.

   deeply involved

   “neck-deep in work”

   “up to their necks in debt”

   Synonymsneck-deepup to my neckup to her neckup to his neckup to our necksup to their necks

   Similarinvolved

Questions about up to your neck

What does up to your neck mean?

up to your neck means "deeply involved".

What is another word for up to your neck?

Close synonyms include neck-deep, up to my neck, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to our necks. 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 your neck a common word?

up to your neck 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.