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bogged down

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bog down

To slow down or burden someone or something. (A bog is an area of wet, muddy ground that is difficult to walk through.) Don't bog down your brother with more suggestions—his paper is due tomorrow, so he needs to commit to a topic and just write about it! We were hoping to open the restaurant by the holidays, but we've gotten bogged down with regulations and permits. Who knows when we'll be able to start working on the house? As usual, the township has us bogged down in permits and ordinances.
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bogged down

Burdened or impeded by something. (A bog is an area of wet, muddy land that is difficult to walk through.) Try not to get bogged down in the details of this project—we're looking for speed more than accuracy. You're not helping, OK? Your brother is bogged down in too many suggestions as it is, and his paper is due tomorrow! As usual, we're bogged down in permits and ordinances, so who knows when we'll be able to start working on the house?
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*bogged down

stuck; prevented from making progress. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; become ~.) The students became bogged down with the algebra problems. The Smiths really got bogged down in decorating their house.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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