{"id":2025,"date":"2017-03-22T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2017-03-22T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:49:14","slug":"be-up-to-neck-in-something-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/be-up-to-neck-in-something-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Be up to neck in something | English idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong>you are up to neck in<\/strong> something, you are very busy. Read the piece of conversation given below.<\/p>\n<h2>I&#8217;m up to my neck in work<\/h2>\n<p>Storyline: Aditi has been working at her desk for a long time. So her friend Priya suggests that she should take a break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Priya: Let\u2019s take a coffee break, shall we?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Aditi: I\u2019d like to, but I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Priya: Why? You\u2019ve been sitting at that desk since morning. You haven\u2019t even had your lunch. What keeps you so busy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Aditi: I\u2019m up to my neck in work. I\u2019ve got to finish this assignment today itself. If I don\u2019t, the manager will show me the door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Priya: I understand, but you can\u2019t sit on that computer forever. You need to take a break every now and then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To <strong>show someone the door<\/strong> is to dismiss them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are up to neck in something, you are very busy. Read the piece of conversation given below. I&#8217;m up to my neck in work Storyline: Aditi has been working at her desk&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[425],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-be-up-to-neck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}