Idiom
caught up
Meaning
Involuntarily involved in a situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I got caught up in the argument between my friends.”
“She did not want to join the protest, but she got caught up in the crowd and could not leave.”
“The young journalist found himself caught up in a complex political scandal after he accidentally uncovered evidence of corruption within the local government.”
Examples
simple
“I got caught up in the argument between my friends.”
contextual
“She did not want to join the protest, but she got caught up in the crowd and could not leave.”
complex
“The young journalist found himself caught up in a complex political scandal after he accidentally uncovered evidence of corruption within the local government.”
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