Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Up to one's knuckles; with the whole hand in; so as to be deeply implicated or involved.
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Examples
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He's the epitome of the Hollywood hyphenate, a writer-producer-editor-director who keeps his fingers knuckle-deep in the production pie long after a series launches.
Static 2010
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Free Companions, be knuckle-deep in the English budgets — “And, like jovial hunters,” replied the knight,
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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He's the epitome of the Hollywood hyphenate, a writer-producer-editor-director who keeps his fingers knuckle-deep in the production pie long after a series launches.
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Veronique's hands stilled, knuckle-deep in foamy goo.
Temporary Wife Kilby, Joan 1999
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Incidental, his digits was knuckle-deep into the muscular tissue of William P., the gent to the right.
Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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If you follow my journal, you know that I'm always knuckle-deep in this kind of stuff, and as a result I've lost many good computers and mobile handsets along the way.
ZDNet UK Highlights M 2010
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If you follow my journal, you know that I'm always knuckle-deep in this kind of stuff, and as a result I've lost many good computers and mobile handsets along the way.
ZDNet UK Highlights 2010
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"And when your justice of peace is knuckle-deep in goose, you may without disparagement to your blood, though you have a lady to your mother, fall very manfully to your woodcocks."
The Lucasta Poems Richard Lovelace 1637
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There’s a moment of confusion as the chimp searches for more food hidden in the hiding place, it’s fingers knuckle-deep in her repository – the spotlight scans the stage, the audience treated to mere flashes of the scene.
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There’s a moment of confusion as the chimp searches for more food hidden in the hiding place, it’s fingers knuckle-deep in her repository – the spotlight scans the stage, the audience treated to mere flashes of the scene.
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