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

(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

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