"ankle-deep" meaning in English

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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": "1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 125:",
          "text": "The floor is littered ankle-deep with half-sewn garments.",
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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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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
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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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          "roman": "po ščíkolotku",
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          "word": "по щи́колотку"
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        "Up to one's ankles in something."
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      "word": "knöcheltief"
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