0 reaching as high as someone's knees -- po kolana , do kolan
1 to have a lot of something to deal with -- siedzieć w czymś po pachy
I'm knee-deep in paperwork.
They were sitting knee-deep in water, in the dark, for nearly three days before they were dug out.
But in the last few years we have been knee-deep in leisure centres, and the rate of juvenile crime has been higher than ever.
It is the number of broiler chickens bred in this country in inhumane conditions—in windowless sheds, knee-deep in droppings—whose limbs never reach maturity because of their accelerated growth.
She would find herself in an antediluvian carriage, knee-deep in filth, and would probably conclude that the journey would be quicker on the back of a lame tortoise.
Photographs taken shortly after evacuation show that the plane came to rest in knee-deep water.
The track was close to the beach, and was knee-deep in sand in places.
The geological forces of the desert mean that tourists now walk through houses knee-deep in sand.
It is also good for parents of young children because the water doesn't get much deeper than knee-deep along the shore.
