up to one's eyebrows

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up to one's eyebrows

  1. Alternative form of up to one's eyeballs
    • 1984 April 21, Sue Hyde, “Got Those Intervention Blues, Friend?”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
      Finding yourself angry and frustrated about Reagan's mining of the Nicaraguan Pacific coast harbors? Have you had it up to your eyebrows with millions of dollars of U.S. aid pumping up the puppet/thug government of El Salvador?