be up to your ears in

Meaning

1. be up to your ears in sth

   to have a lot of sth to deal with

   We're up to our ears in work.

In the movies · 4

• Right. Netta, cover up your ears.Runaway Bride1999
• Now if you don't shut up, I will cut your ear off with a butter knife.The Other Guys2010
• You buy yourself a bag and plug up your ears.Sunset Boulevard1950
• Remember, this was pre-internet so, you know, it was, like, there wasn't any "straight boy goes gay for pay" websites or stick-a-monster-cock- up-your-arse-and-ear. Com.Weekend2011

Learn it in full scenes

• Sunset Boulevard1950
  • The Repo Men Come for the Car
  • Joe Pitches Bases Loaded at Paramount
  • Joe Is Mistaken for the Undertaker

From the same entry

• be all ears
• be out on your ear
• comes to ears
• ears are burning
• ears are flapping
• go in one ear and out the other
• have coming out of your ears
• have ear
• keep your ear to the ground
• play by ear
• play it by ear
• shut your ears to