Sentence in other words — "to have something up"
Hi, community? I searched for "keister" on Lexico. And it showed me a given definition. I'm okay with it, but I couldn't understand the meaning of the sentence used as an example. Could you help me with it? Here's the definition with its example of use:
• keister
? INFORMAL, NORTH AMERICA, a person's buttocks.
"I've had it up to my keister with all these leaks"
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MagnusManrik I've had it up to my keister with all these leaks. ", an expression used to emphasize the extreme degree of an undesirable situation or condition. ( He's up to his eyeballs in debt.
- MagnusManrik I've had it up to my keister with all these leaks.
- ", an expression used to emphasize the extreme degree of an undesirable situation or condition.
- ( He's up to his eyeballs in debt.
- ) It comes from the literal idea of rising water in a flood.
- ( We were up to our [ankles / knees / waists] in water.
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MagnusManrikI've had it up to my keister with all these leaks.
This is one of many variants of "up to one's eyeballs in ...", an expression used to emphasize the extreme degree of an undesirable situation or condition. (He's up to his eyeballs in debt. Variant: I'm up to my neck in work.)
It comes from the literal idea of rising water i
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