up to the hub

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English

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"I am afraid A. F. S. (Dresden) gets "up to the hub" in engineering difficulties sometimes, but this will help him to appreciate the force, beauty and application of the expression."
"I was up to the hub in love, and was goin' into it like a locomotive."
"[…] I was like the wheels of the wagon, out of which I had made some of my capital — up to the hub in the mire of poverty, a heavy load forcing me deeper down, and no aid likely to be given me."

Suggesting a wheel stuck in mud.

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