He had no nose, properly speaking, but a large beak of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliterated the unimportant chin.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  The Enormous Room, ch.3.

I'm up to the chin in heaven.

-Middleton,Thomas
  The Changeling (with William Rowley), act 2, sc.2.

Take it on the chin and move on.

-Naipaul, Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad)
Attributed comment to Paul Theroux after their friendship ended. In Sir Vidia'sShadow:  A Friendship  Across FiveContinents by Paul Theroux (1998).