Idiom idiom
bogged down
Meaning
Stuck; mired, as in detail, difficulty; delayed or made slower.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I am getting bogged down in these small details.”
“The project is behind schedule because the team keeps getting bogged down in unnecessary paperwork.”
“While the author intended to write a concise summary, he became so bogged down in historical research that the final manuscript grew to over a thousand pages.”
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Last updated August 10, 2026