ankle-deep

ankle-deep (not comparable)

1. Up to one's ankles in something.

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

   • 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, 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.

• knee-deep