eyeball (redirected from eyeballs)

be up to your ears/eyeballs/eyes in something (British, American & Australian, American)

to have too much of something, especially work. We're up to our eyeballs in decorating at the moment.

See also: ear, eye

eyeball to eyeball

if you are eyeball to eyeball with an enemy or someone that you are arguing with, you deal with them in a direct way. Troops on the ground are likely to remain eyeball to eyeball for a while yet.

eyeball-to-eyeball

eyeball to eyeball - if you are eyeball to eyeball with an enemy or someone that you are arguing with, you deal with them in a direct way. The public wants to see an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between the two party leaders. (always before noun)