be up to (one's) eyebrows in (something)

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be up to (one's) eyebrows in (something)

To have too much of something; to be overwhelmed by something. We're still unpacking our new house, so we're just up to our eyebrows in boxes. If any of my guys get hurt at the construction site, I'll be up to my eyebrows in paperwork.

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You don't get for nothing
you don't get something for nothing
you don't have to be a rocket scientist
you don't have to be a rocket scientist (to do something)
you don't have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm
you don't have to set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm
You don't know the half of it
you don't know where it's been
you don't say
you don't say!
you dope
You eat with that mouth?
you first
you gals
you get (back) what you give
you get what you pay for
You give up too easy
you give up too easy/easily
You got it!
you got me beat
You got me there
You got that?
You got to do what you got to do
you guys
You guys bitchin'?
you had been up to your eyebrows
You had better believe it!
you had me at (something)
you had me worried
you had one job
you had to be there
you had to have been there
you have (got) to laugh
you have got to be kidding (me)
you have made your bed and must lie in it
you have no idea
you have no idea...
you have to (learn to) walk before you (can) run
you have to be cruel to be kind
you have to break eggs to make an omelet
you have to do what you have to do
you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die
you have to hand it to someone
you have to laugh
you haven't lived
you hear me?
You heard
you heard (one)
you heard the lady
you heard the man
you heel
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you had a heart of gold
you had a heart of stone
you had a lot on your plate
you had a mind as sharp as a steel trap
you had a mind like a sieve
you had a mind like a steel trap
you had a one-track mind
you had a screw loose
you had a sweet tooth
you had a swelled head
you had a swollen head
you had a tiger by the tail
you had a warm heart
you had an itching palm
you had an itchy palm
you had another guess coming
you had bayed for blood
you had been knocked off your pedestal
you had been left up to your devices
you had been left up to your resources
you had been on your high horse
you had been on your last legs
you had been on your toes
you had been turning over in your grave
you had been up to your ears
you had been up to your ears in
you had been up to your ears in something
you had been up to your eyeballs
you had been up to your eyeballs in
you had been up to your eyeballs in something
you had been up to your eyebrows
you had been up to your eyebrows in
you had been up to your eyebrows in something
you had been up to your eyes
you had been up to your eyes in
you had been up to your eyes in something
you had been worth your salt
you had been your own man
you had been your own person
you had been your own woman
you had been your own worst enemy
you had better be going
you had better be off
you had better believe it
You had better believe it!
you had better get moving
you had better get on your horse
you had better hit the road
you had better keep quiet about it
you had better keep still about it
you had buried the lead
you had buried the lede
you had carried a torch
you had come and gone
you had come running
you had come short
you had come up short
you had dibs on
you had dibs on it
You had dibs on it!
you had dibs on something
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