be tied up in English
be occupied with a particular obligation, be committed to something
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1. I'm gonna cause such a terrible stink in this Third Reich of theirs that thousands of troops'll be tied up here looking after us.
2. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Water Berth Berth 1 / bɜːθ $ bɜːrθ / noun [countable] 1 TTW a place where a ship can stop and be tied up 2 TTW a place for someone to sleep on a ship or on a train SYN bunk → give somebody/something a wide Berth Examples from the Corpus Berth • Similar to plan 1