| 单词 | up to our necks |
| 例句 | “We’re in it up to our necks,” said Knife in a low voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z So we wade in up to our necks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We had fallen into the trap, up to our necks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It rained every day, and we found ourselves working up to our necks in sticky brown mud. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Millipedes feed on dead organic material and without them people would be “up to our necks” in it, Marek said. A new millipede species is crawling under LA. It’s blind, glassy and has 486 legs 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Bush derided Al Gore, then the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, as "Ozone Man," someone who would put us "up to our necks in owls — and outta work for every American." GOP mocked Al Gore as "Ozone Man": But he was right the whole time — and they knew it 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z We are all up to our necks in mud. Opinion | The coronavirus has thrown us all in the mud 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z On this most people could agree: we were now up to our necks in a seething, ever churning ocean of information, some of it true, much of it wrong. Alan Rusbridger: who broke the news? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It is easy to see how someone might find themselves in too deep when we were arguably up to our necks about 300 words ago. Taylor Swift’s fans make the best online sleuths. What can they teach me about social media? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Part of our uniqueness has to do with our being up to our necks in guns, and part of it is our frontier mentality. Gun worship, frontier myths stoke violence in U.S. 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z ‘We’ve been up to our necks since February with a lot of cross-pollination of ideas about where the companies fit together and where they don’t.’ InterContinental, Kimpton Face Growing Pains 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z And so we clung on like that in a circle, submerged in chocolate right up to our necks. I nearly drowned in chocolate 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Here in San Francisco, we’re just waiting for the bay to rise up to our necks. An App for Finding Your Voice and Other Fascinating News on the Web 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z "We were up to our necks in murders," he said. 'The Executioner' under microscope in trial of accused U.S. mobster Bulger 2013-06-19T09:19:21Z Two of us," said he, "plunged up to our necks into the water, in the irrepressible desire to swim out to them; though we knew that it was certain death to go beyond our depth. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z How the stones flew as, safe up to our necks in water, if need be, we pelted the paper domicile! Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z We’re up to our necks in garbage, after all, and disposal costs more than reuse. LanzaTech Gets $55.8 Million To Convert Carbon Monoxide To Fuel 2012-01-23T19:10:13Z If the religious folk are right, we shall be in it up to our necks. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z We seem to be up to our necks in all sorts of queer mysteries, you know.” Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z We were now in the lake itself, standing almost up to our necks in water, and not more than ten yards from the bank. The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z We are in this up to our necks. The crisis is no American invention ? the City was in it, up to its neck 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z I'd trade my immortal soul to the devil if it would get you out of this mess, but we're both in it up to our necks and we can't back out now. Triplanetary "We'll be lucky if we don't sink in up to our necks." Smugglers' Reef I wish I could help you, but Mumsy and I are up to our necks canning peaches and we can’t stop a minute. The Comings of Cousin Ann But before we could get there the water was up to our necks and we could make no progress. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin We had hardly gone twelve yards, with water up to our necks, when the inevitable took place. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet There is going to be a hades of a time here in St. Petersburg this next week, and dad and I are going to be in it clear up to our necks. Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 Landing at Cape Martyr, wet up to our necks with splashing through the pools of water, nowhere less than knee-deep, and often a mile in extent, we did not willingly leave the dry land again. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 The Camp is up to our necks in mud. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 We were pitched out, and as we got up on our legs we found ourselves in snow up to our necks. The Land of the Long Night We waded through it successfully with water up to our necks, and again we found ourselves upon marshy land, with a repetition of the previous day's experience. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet And, indeed, we were up to our necks in business these days. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance We are standing up to our necks in a time problem, and the tide is on the rise. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 "We'll be in it up to our necks in a few minutes now," muttered Bart, as they waited for the order to charge. Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive Oh dear no: all we’ve to do, is to sit up to our necks in casks of water, and bob our heads under every now and then. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days I'd trade my immortal soul to the devil if it would get you out of this mess, but we're both in it up to our necks and we can't dog it now. Triplanetary Gehenna of a big crop; we're up to our necks in melons. The Cosmic Computer Otherwise we 'd have been scrambling around in water up to our necks. The Cross-Cut Here we are right up to our necks in an epoch-making business proposition and he don't concern himself two whoops. The Forfeit "Yes, we're up to our necks in melons," the old planter grumbled. Graveyard of Dreams The boats were lodged on a reef of rock, and we were obliged to "walk" them for some distance, when suddenly the water deepened, and we all went up to our necks. The River and I We were in it up to our necks, more or less literally. Private Peat We were obliged to ford the river ten or a dozen times in the course of the day, sometimes with the water up to our necks. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific With bamboo poles twenty feet long and lines of even greater length, we stood up to our necks in the sea and threw out the hook baited with a morsel of shrimp. White Shadows in the South Seas We’re buried in special books up to our necks—whole shelves full of them—with plates. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale All day we waded, sometimes up to our necks; sometimes we swam a bit, and sometimes we clung to the boat and kicked it on to the next shallows. The River and I Right in it, up to our necks, old man! The Lost City And here we are, up to our necks in the tureen. The Lost World We cried out, but it was too late; in an instant we were standing in the water up to our necks, surrounded by the floating bodies of the slaughtered ducks. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I "Those fields will be mud up to our necks." Tom of the Raiders We're up to our necks in regular highway robberies, M. Charles. The Companions of Jehu And there we stood, up to our necks, coughing and spluttering; while on the deserted brink the bear sniff'd at the water and regarded us. The Splendid Spur However, after we once struggled up to our necks in water it was use less to turn back. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Sometimes the water was up to our necks, and twice poor Sutchok, who was shorter than all the rest of us, got a mouthful and spluttered. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I We're in it at last, up to our necks; in it with men and ships and munitions and foodstuffs and everything else we have to help with, praise the Lord! The Firefly of France When we weren't up to our necks in snow, we were rolling down the khud. Stalky & Co. This simple operation took but a minute, but before it was completed we were all up to our necks in the sea. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales We were up to our necks in it now, and must fight our way out the best way we could. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields |
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