Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

up to one's eyebrows

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English

Syllables: up- -to one's eye-brows
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Alternative form of up to one's eyeballs.

Example Sentences

"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?"

Questions

What does up to one's eyebrows mean?: Alternative form of up to one's eyeballs.

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