ankle-deep

ankle-deep (not comparable)

1. Up to one's ankles in something.

   Coordinate terms: elbow-deep, knee-deep, neckdeep, waist-deep

   She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.

   • 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:

     The floor is littered ankle-deep with half-sewn garments.

   • 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:

     Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.