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ankle deep

adjective

Roget 208: deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged etc. 310; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene; ... show more

Roget 209: shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep; just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly.   

Moby thesaurus: cursory, deep, deep-cut, deep-down, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-reaching, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking, deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deepish, deepsome, depthless, epidermal ... show more.

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