"ankle-deep" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.",
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        {
          "ref": "1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 7",
          "text": "Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Up to one's ankles in something."
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          "ankle",
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        "not-comparable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "knöcheltief"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "până la glezne"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "po ščíkolotku",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "по щи́колотку"
        }
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  "word": "ankle-deep"
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          "text": "She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.",
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          "ref": "1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 7",
          "text": "Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.",
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        "Up to one's ankles in something."
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        [
          "ankle",
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        "not-comparable"
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "knöcheltief"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "word": "până la glezne"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "po ščíkolotku",
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      "word": "по щи́колотку"
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  "word": "ankle-deep"
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