earth up

In a famous story, a medieval cosmologist is asked what holds the earth up.

“You can’t just shovel earth up there, you need to find a way of anchoring it, and then you also have to anchor a ski surface, plants, trees. It starts to get complicated.”

Winnie, the central character — really the only one — is immured in earth up to her waist.

"������ it does to the earth up there is disgusting," he said.

In a revival of his two-act play “Happy Days,” she played a woman buried in a mound of earth up to her neck.