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Adjective
over head and ears (not comparable)
- (informal) Completely; wholly; hopelessly; head over heels.
They were over head and ears in debt.
1842, , chapter LXII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 164–165:“Well, I must say, it is a comfort to have any body like you about one, Helen, for Georgiana is really over head and ears in love with that sailor ; she thinks of nothing else, I am convinced, though the most spirit-stirring affair in the world is on the tapis—your brother Glentworth’s election.”