英语词汇“up to one's armpits”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

up to one's (also the) armpits and variants: to a great or compromising extent; deeply immersed, involved, or implicated (in a situation, enterprise, etc.); cf. up to the neck at neck n.¹ Phrases 12b.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > depth [phrase] > in something to specific depth

up to the shoes1518

over head and ears?1521

head and ears1576

mid-rib deep1697

(immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822

up to one's (also the) armpits1869

1869 Congress. Globe Apr. 549/1 The Company is steeped in fraud to the very armpits.

1878 Congress. Rec. Feb. 713/1 There certainly has been purgatory in the vicinity of his chamber, and I know that Colonel Polk has been in it up to his armpits.

1913 Scotsman 27 Feb. 8/4 Do not get the notion that the newspapers are not in this ‘graft’. They have been in it up to the armpits for twenty-five years.

1951 Washington Post 9 Dec. b6/4 Picture an Englishman of sober mien, up to the armpits in open books.

1986 Times 2 Oct. 8/6 Panama is up to its armpits in drug trafficking.

1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost iii. iv. 434 He is indebted to me up to his armpit.

2014 Daily Star (Nexis) 21 Oct. 32 We have debts up to our armpits.

单词	up to one's armpits
释义	> as lemmas up to one's (also the) armpits up to one's (also the) armpits and variants: to a great or compromising extent; deeply immersed, involved, or implicated (in a situation, enterprise, etc.); cf. up to the neck at neck n.¹ Phrases 12b. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > depth [phrase] > in something to specific depth up to the shoes1518 over head and ears?1521 head and ears1576 mid-rib deep1697 (immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822 up to one's (also the) armpits1869 1869 Congress. Globe Apr. 549/1 The Company is steeped in fraud to the very armpits. 1878 Congress. Rec. Feb. 713/1 There certainly has been purgatory in the vicinity of his chamber, and I know that Colonel Polk has been in it up to his armpits. 1913 Scotsman 27 Feb. 8/4 Do not get the notion that the newspapers are not in this ‘graft’. They have been in it up to the armpits for twenty-five years. 1951 Washington Post 9 Dec. b6/4 Picture an Englishman of sober mien, up to the armpits in open books. 1986 Times 2 Oct. 8/6 Panama is up to its armpits in drug trafficking. 1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost iii. iv. 434 He is indebted to me up to his armpit. 2014 Daily Star (Nexis) 21 Oct. 32 We have debts up to our armpits. extracted from armpitn. < as lemmas
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