ankle-deep en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Up to one's ankles in something.
She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.
Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 7:The floor is littered ankle-deep with half-sewn garments.
1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 125:
Coordinates
neckdeep · waist-deep · knee-deep · elbow-deep
Translations (3)
de knöcheltief (Translations) · ru по щи́колотку (Translations) · ro până la glezne (Translations)