{"id":768,"date":"2008-11-21T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/uptoyourears\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T16:56:36","slug":"uptoyourears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Up to your ears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re very busy, you can say that you&#8217;re <em>up to your ears<\/em> with work, as I was last week with reports, presentations, an essay and lots of reading to do.<\/p>\n<p>In English you can also say that you&#8217;re <em>up to your eyes, eyeballs, elbows or neck<\/em>, <em>snowed under<\/em>, <em>drowning<\/em>, <em>swamped<\/em>, <em>rushed\/run off your feet<\/em> with\/in work.<\/p>\n<p>Are there equivalent phrases in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re very busy, you can say that you&#8217;re up to your ears with work, as I was last week with reports, presentations, an essay and lots of reading to do. In English you can also say that you&#8217;re up to your eyes, eyeballs, elbows or neck, snowed under, drowning, swamped, rushed\/run off your feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}