Imagine you're a decorator and now you have a big house to get done in a very tight deadline. You're desperate to not let the owner of the house down, so you work extra hours to see if you can make it on time. When someone else interested in your works asks for your help, you say: I'm sorry, but I'm up to my eyeballs in decorating this house at the moment. Maybe at some time in the future.
When you're up to your eyeballs in soing something, you're very very busy. That's expressions reminds us very much of a very similar one: to be up to one's neck in work. So the same expression could apply to the situation I just described. You're up to neck in decorating the house. That's it for today. Take care!
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