bog

bog down

To slow down or burden someone or something. (A bog is an area of wet, muddy ground that it is difficult to walk through.) Don't bog down your brother with more suggestions—his paper is due tomorrow, so he needs to commit to a topic and just write about it! We were hoping to open the restaurant by the holidays, but we've gotten bogged down with regulations and permits.
See also: bog, down

bog in

1. To eat or commence eating heartily and vigorously; to tuck into one's food. Primarily heard in Australia. I'm happy so many people could be here for this meal. Now, bog in, everyone! After five hours of working in the sun, we all bogged into our meal in silence.
2. To do or undertake something quickly or enthusiastically. Primarily heard in Australia. If we all bog in, we'll have this shed built in no time.
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bog off

Get out of here; go away; get lost. Primarily heard in UK. Listen, I don't want to buy any, so why don't you just bog off and leave me alone!
See also: bog, off

bog standard

slang Conventional. Primarily heard in UK. I just need a bog standard phone—nothing fancy.
See also: bog, standard

bogged down

Burdened or impeded by something. (A bog is an area of wet, muddy land that it is difficult to walk through.) Try not to get bogged down in the details of this project—we're looking for speed more than accuracy.
See also: bog, down
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bog down

to become encumbered and slow. (As if one were walking through a bog and getting stuck in the mud. Often preceded by a form of get.) The process bogged down and almost stopped. The truck got bogged down in the mud soon after it started.
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*bogged down

stuck; prevented from making progress. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; become ~.) The students became bogged down with the algebra problems. The Smiths really got bogged down in decorating their house.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

bog down

Become stuck, be unable to progress, as in Their research bogged down because they lacked the laboratory expertise. This expression transfers sinking into the mud of a swamp to being hampered or halted. [First half of 1900s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

bog ˈstandard

(British English, informal) ordinary; with no special features: All you need is a bog standard machine — nothing fancy.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • bog down
  • bogged down
  • be down to (do something)
  • be down to something
  • come a gutser
  • champ down on (someone or something)
  • bear down
  • come down with
  • be down to (one)
  • be down to somebody/something
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Hundreds travelled to the Waen Rhydd bog to give it a go and to watch the swampy shennanigans.
Bog snorkelling contest returns for 32nd year
While out hunting one night, Bog's father is turned to stone by the followers of a mysterious human known as the Troll Hunter.
Bog
Bram Stoker's overlooked novel, The Snake's Pass (1890), inaugurates what I refer to in this article as the 'Bog Gothic'.
The Bog Gothic: Bram Stoker's 'Carpet of Death' and Ireland's horrible beauty
FLAPPING face down in a narrow channel of mud and water, hundreds of adventure-loving sportsmen and women descended on Mid Wales yesterday for the annual Bog Snorkelling Championships.
RAISING THE BOG STANDARD
UP to their necks in mud, competitors in one of Ireland's most off beat sports battle to be champion of the bog yesterday.
Snorkelling in muddy drain is bog standard
Keywords: Peatland, bog, Sphagnum, Larix laricina, succession
Seventeen years of change in two Sphagnum bogs in Noble County, Indiana
Until a few years ago, many considered the bog turtle, listed as threatened in 1997, to be unrecoverable.
Partnering to conserve bog turtle habitat in Pennsylvania
In what part of the world are many bog mummies found?
Mummies in nature