to bogged down
21
5.8
- phrasal verb
- /bɔɡd daʊn/
- Informal
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atascarse
- When traveling, you can get bogged down with local history and statistics that you will never use.
- get bogged down
- become bogged down
- remain bogged down
And so people get very bogged down on trying to match those things.
- And so people get very bogged down on trying to match those things.
- But but but we tend to to get bogged down with it a bit too much.
- In that way, I feel like now our relationship isn't bogged down by all that old stuff.
- So your dad and Sam Harris famously got bogged down in trying to define what is true.
- George W Bush was bogged down by an unwinnable war in Iraq.
- But I try not to get bogged down in that because that's not really the issue here.
- Don't get unnecessarily bogged down in ones that that aren't worth going in for.
- Because there's a real value, I think, in these feeling like they're moving from bit to bit and not just getting bogged down in one bit.
- However, Munker's campaign against the Song dynasty became bogged down in sieges, mud, and rain in Sichuan province.
- We forget to be creative and have fun and let go and enjoy ourselves because we get so bogged down with what adulthood is supposed to be.
- And I think people get way too bogged down in the, oh, I made these mistakes earlier, way too bogged down and overestimate the cost of that.
Examples
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The project manager warned the team not to get bogged down in minor details that could delay progress.
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But I try not to get bogged down in that because that's not really the issue here.
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A lot of us get bogged down by e-mail, right?
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And so people get very bogged down on trying to match those things.
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The key point here is that we should not become bogged down in the details, book by book.
Academic text (2004) -
Too often we allow ourselves to get bogged down thinking there is only one.
Blog text (15) -
The bill then moved on to the House of Representatives, where it was bogged down in committee.
Academic text (1995) -
Unfortunately, his attempt to answer gets bogged down in, of all things, the blood quantum issue.
Academic text (2004) -
I don't want to get bogged down too much in those details.
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And we don't want to get bogged down in a lot of individual examples.
Synonyms
180
2.2
To be unable to move or continue because something blocks you
29
7.6
To become stuck in mud or a difficult situation
9
3.7
To block a drain or road so things cannot move through it
8
4.6
Reach a point where you cannot continue
6
7.2
To make moving parts stuck with dirt or glue so they stop working
5
5.5
To meet an unexpected problem that stops progress
5
5.8
To get stuck and stop making progress
2
6.1
To get stuck or slow down during an activity
2
5.3
To face an unexpected problem that prevents progress
2
6.0
To become narrow and slow progress
1
7.8
In a bad situation that stops progress like being stuck in mud
How Stuck
180
2.2
- Informal
21
5.8
90
2.8
562
1.4
687
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'bog' already means to stall or become stuck and the particle 'down' reinforces a sense of immobility or being held in place, so the combined meaning 'to become stuck or unable to progress' is directly derivable from the constituents. This follows a common phrasal-verb composition pattern in English and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Bogged down comes from the image of a cart or car stuck in a bog, soft wet ground that holds you down so it cannot move. So, it now means 'to become stuck' or 'unable to progress' because of problems or too many details.