up to the hub

English

Etymology

Suggesting a wheel stuck in mud.

Prepositional phrase

(idiomatic) As far as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business; deeply involved.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “up to the hub”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)