Idiom
otherwise engaged
Meaning
busy doing something else
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I cannot help you today because I am otherwise engaged.”
“I would love to join your party, but I am otherwise engaged with a work project all evening.”
“Although the professor was invited to the gala, he politely declined, stating he was otherwise engaged with his ongoing research.”
Examples
simple
“I cannot help you today because I am otherwise engaged.”
contextual
“I would love to join your party, but I am otherwise engaged with a work project all evening.”
complex
“Although the professor was invited to the gala, he politely declined, stating he was otherwise engaged with his ongoing research.”
Key words
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