ankle-deep
adj1
Up to one's ankles in something.
- She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.
- The floor is littered ankle-deep with half-sewn garments.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:
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- Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.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: