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up to the elbows

up to the elbows is the alternative form of up to one's elbows.

Meaning of up to one's elbows

Prepositional phrase

  1. Completely engrossed.

Questions about up to the elbows

What is up to the elbows the alternative form of?
Up to the elbows is the alternative form of up to one's elbows.

Words near up to the elbows in the dictionary

  1. up to snuff
  2. up to something
  3. up to speed
  4. up to standard
  5. up to the chin
  6. up to the elbows
  7. up to the hammer
  8. up to the hub
  9. up to the knocker
  10. up to the mark
  11. up to the nines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up to the elbows (page history and authors); up to one's elbows (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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