over head and ears

"Besides, he was over head and ears in love with her."

Over head and ears; but, unless I am much mistaken, there will be a storm in that quarter.

She agrees to be an obedient wife, but warns them that she is "over head and ears in love with someone else."

If Dinny's in love, it's over head and ears, Wilfrid.

He wouldn't keep out of Jarndyce, and I suppose he's over head and ears in debt.

Michael's over head and ears.

How do you come to be over head and ears in love with her, Lottchen, and you haven't seen her at all?

But if I wasn't over head and ears in love when I resumed my walk that evening, well, I've never known what the passion is.

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I have no doubt that this woman had plunged him over head and ears in debt, and so led him into this miserable plot.

Don't we all know that it must be a match, that they were over head and ears in love with each other from the first moment they met?

called Pliable to his companion, as they both went over head and ears into the Slough of Despond. '

He only knew, or imagined, that he was over head and ears in love with the girl: what was to come of it was all in the clouds.

Over head and ears in love, and old-fashioned to the point of marriage, he spent his days at the tail of a petticoat as often absent as not.

But he at once fell over head and ears in love with the young lady, a thing he had never done in his life before, becausehe said"women are so stupid!"

If we called in the forenoon, we generally found our neighbour hard at work in the fields, and his wife over head and ears in her domestic occupations.

First came in, hobbling, rank and gout; next, rank and gaming; then rank, Very high rank, over head and ears in debt.

Little Dorrit had hardly time to think how kind it was, when Flora dashed at the breakfast-table full of business, and plunged over head and ears into loquacity. '

In 1784 Lady Conyers died, and Captain Byron returned to England, a widower, over head and ears in debt, and in search of an heiress.

For "H.H." was Harris J. Hynes . . . and Pat was over head and ears in love with him!

As Harold knew him to be a wastrel, over head and ears in debt and with only the succession to a small estate, he did not take much heed to his maunderings.

But let him be over head and ears in love, and with such a beauteous sweetheart as Rachael, and he will think no more of fourteen years' servitude than young Jacob did.

"We must get to press," said the foreman, who was over head and ears in work; 'just stick in some other letter for o; nobody's going to read the fellow's trash anyhow.' '

So that Ursula would appeal no more to the headmaster, but, when she was driven wild, she seized her cane, and slashed the boy who was insolent to her, over head and ears and hands.

'Faith, ere a month was past, the patient was over head and ears in love with the doctor; and as for Baron Larrey, and Broussais, and Esquirol, they were sent to the right-about.