Idiom
stuck in the mud
Meaning
Stuck, unable to progress.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My old car is stuck in the mud again.”
“The project is stuck in the mud because we are waiting for the manager to approve the budget.”
“Despite their best efforts to modernize the company, the team found themselves stuck in the mud due to the rigid bureaucracy of the older executives.”
Examples
simple
“My old car is stuck in the mud again.”
contextual
“The project is stuck in the mud because we are waiting for the manager to approve the budget.”
complex
“Despite their best efforts to modernize the company, the team found themselves stuck in the mud due to the rigid bureaucracy of the older executives.”
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