over head and ears

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over head and ears (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Completely; wholly; hopelessly; head over heels.
    They were over head and ears in debt.
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], 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.”