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

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.

See also: bog, down

*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.

See also: bog, down

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]

See also: bog, down

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

See also:

bog
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

References in periodicals archive

Bad days will see intermittent stops and occasional bog downs. In some stations, the platform is short so commuters have to literally jump out to the ground.

PNR: 'Rolling coffins' languish in snail-paced modernization

With all of these couple of hundred drives on a Fibre Channel loop, when you interrupt the loop to do an addition, you basically still have access but you sort of cause things to bog down. And, again, customers don't want to have to wait until the wee hours of the morning to do capacity expansions and those sorts of things, so by having a switched backend architecture, you can be assured that you can add capacity on the fly, in real time, without any degradation to your application.

Roundtable: "switched on storage arrays": Part 2 of 3

It will probably not be only non-Germanists who bog down in three middle chapters of the book where Newman analyzes at length and in (too) much detail the function of the text as institution on the basis of three sorts of works produced by the "Pegnitz-Schafer": language theory tomes, works of poetics, and pastorals.

Pastoral Conventions: Poetry, Language, and Thought in Seventeenth-Century Nuremberg

The prose does not sparkle, but neither does it bog down. Overall, therefore, this first effort at writing a textbook on the history of mentalities is a success.

The Broken Spell: A Cultural and Anthropological History of Preindustrial Europe

Overall, this is an inspiring true story, but it does bog down a little, and the Lieutenant General tends to pontificate and preach a hit.

Kennedy, Claudia J., with Malcolm McConnell. Generally speaking; a memoir by the first woman promoted to three-star general in the United States Army

But lately the campaign has begun to bog down, as the rebels have shifted their base into the rugged, mountainous south and the streets of Grozny, the capital.

UNDER SIEGE

The process is so slow that it can bog down the system.

ENCRYPTION ISSUES: MOVING TOWARD HIGHER PERFORMANCE NETWORK SECURITY SUBSYSTEMS

Similarly, telecommunications currently bog down at switching hubs, where optical signals must shunt briefly to less efficient, electronic routing equipment.

Crystal bends light hard, saves space

It does bog down a bit in some parts but overall is enjoyable.

Stiller, Eric. Keep Australia on your left; a true story of an attempt to circumnavigate Australia by kayak

One problem, according to Sagdeev, is that "bureaucratic dinosaurs" bog down virtually every facet of the scientific community.

USSR official attacks Soviet science

词组	bog down
释义	bog down 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 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. See also: bog, down 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. See also: bog, down 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] See also: bog, down The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. See also: bog 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 References in periodicals archive Bad days will see intermittent stops and occasional bog downs. In some stations, the platform is short so commuters have to literally jump out to the ground. PNR: 'Rolling coffins' languish in snail-paced modernization With all of these couple of hundred drives on a Fibre Channel loop, when you interrupt the loop to do an addition, you basically still have access but you sort of cause things to bog down. And, again, customers don't want to have to wait until the wee hours of the morning to do capacity expansions and those sorts of things, so by having a switched backend architecture, you can be assured that you can add capacity on the fly, in real time, without any degradation to your application. Roundtable: "switched on storage arrays": Part 2 of 3 It will probably not be only non-Germanists who bog down in three middle chapters of the book where Newman analyzes at length and in (too) much detail the function of the text as institution on the basis of three sorts of works produced by the "Pegnitz-Schafer": language theory tomes, works of poetics, and pastorals. Pastoral Conventions: Poetry, Language, and Thought in Seventeenth-Century Nuremberg The prose does not sparkle, but neither does it bog down. Overall, therefore, this first effort at writing a textbook on the history of mentalities is a success. The Broken Spell: A Cultural and Anthropological History of Preindustrial Europe Overall, this is an inspiring true story, but it does bog down a little, and the Lieutenant General tends to pontificate and preach a hit. Kennedy, Claudia J., with Malcolm McConnell. Generally speaking; a memoir by the first woman promoted to three-star general in the United States Army But lately the campaign has begun to bog down, as the rebels have shifted their base into the rugged, mountainous south and the streets of Grozny, the capital. UNDER SIEGE The process is so slow that it can bog down the system. ENCRYPTION ISSUES: MOVING TOWARD HIGHER PERFORMANCE NETWORK SECURITY SUBSYSTEMS Similarly, telecommunications currently bog down at switching hubs, where optical signals must shunt briefly to less efficient, electronic routing equipment. Crystal bends light hard, saves space It does bog down a bit in some parts but overall is enjoyable. Stiller, Eric. Keep Australia on your left; a true story of an attempt to circumnavigate Australia by kayak One problem, according to Sagdeev, is that "bureaucratic dinosaurs" bog down virtually every facet of the scientific community. USSR official attacks Soviet science
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