tie up (someone)

to limit someone's ability to act.

I was tied up in meetings all morning.

We were late because traffic tied us up for two hours!

• larger than life
• lash out
• lash out at
• lash out at someone
• lash out at something
• last but not least
• last-ditch
• last-gasp
• last gasp of
• last gasp of something
• last hurrah
• last minute
• last of the big spenders
• last straw
• last word in
• last word in something
• latchkey child
• latchkey kid
• latch onto
• latch onto someone
• latch onto something
• late in the day
• laugh all the way to the bank
• laugh a minute
• laugh at