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Brewer's: Head and Ears
Over head and ears [in debt, in love, etc.], completely; entirely. The allusion is to a person immersed in water. The French phrase is “Avoir des dettes pardessus la tete.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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