HEAD AND EARS

Definition: HEAD AND EARS

HEAD AND EARS

1. With the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Completeness

Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.

Debt

In debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties; incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved; fast tied up; insolvent; (not paying); minus, out of pocket.

Depth

Adverb: beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears; mark twine, mark twain.

Feeling

Adverb: heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels.

Height

Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

Love

Adjective: loving; Verb: fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten; attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed; Verb: in love; love-sick; over head and ears in love, head over heels in love.

Redundancy

Adverb: over, too, over and above; overmuch, too much; too far; without measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with.. to spare; over head and ears; up to one's eyes, up to one's ears; extra; beyond the mark; (transcursion); acervatim.

Crosswords: HEAD AND EARS

Expressions using "HEAD AND EARS": be over head and ears in debt ♦ be over head and ears in love with ♦ over head and ears ♦ over head and ears in love. Additional references.

Czech

až po uši (over head and ears). (various references)

Finnish

velassa korviaan myöten (over head and ears in debt), silmittömästi rakastunut (over head and ears in love). (various references)

Hungarian

nyakig vmiben (head over ears in sg, over head and ears in sg), nyakig (head over ears, over head, over head and ears), fülig vmiben (head over ears in sg, over head and ears in sg), fülig (over ears, over head and ears, up to the chin). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadhay anday earsay

Romanian

pânã peste cap (over head and ears, up to the eye), fi dator vândut (be over head and ears in debt), fi îndrãgostit lulea (be over head and ears in love with, spoon), îndrãgostit lulea (love sick, over head and ears in love, spoony). (various references)

Swedish

upp över öronen (over head and ears). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: adherends.

-3 letters: adherend, hardened, redheads.

-4 letters: adhered, adheres, aneared, danders, darshan, dasheen, deadens, deashed, dharnas, endears, hardens, headers, hearsed, reddens, redhead, sardana, sheared, shedder, sraddha.

-5 letters: adders, adhere, anears, arenas, dander, darned, dashed, dasher, deaden, deader, deaned, dedans, denars, denser, desand, dharna, dreads, earned, endear, enders, erased, haeres, handed, harden, headed, header, hearse, heders, herded, neared, ranees, readds, redans, redden, rended, reseda, resend, sadden, sadder, sanded, sander, seared, sended, sender, shaded, shader, shared, snared, sradha.

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