to be tied up
41tied up — Synonyms and related words: absorbed in, at it, at work, bound, burdened with debt, busy, caught up in, deep in debt, embarrassed, employed, encumbered, engaged, enmeshed in, entangled in, far gone, fettered, full of business, hampered,… …
42tied up — ADJ GRADED: v link ADJ, oft ADJ with/in n If someone or something is tied up, they are busy or being used, with the result that they are not available for anything else. [INFORMAL] He s tied up with his new book. He s working hard, you know...… …
43Tied Cottage Chase — The Tied Cottage Chase is a Grade 2 National Hunt race in Ireland. It is run at Punchestown Racecourse in February, over a distance of 2 miles. The race is named after Tied Cottage, a National Hunt horse who was first past the post in the 1980… …
44tied agent — Also known as appointed representatives. See polarisation. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary A tied agent is a financial salesman who can only offer to sell the products of one company, rather than looking at the whole market for… …
45tied — Synonyms and related words: affiliate, affiliated, aground, alike, allied, anchored, assembled, associate, associated, at par, au pair, banded together, beholden, beholden to, bound, bounden, bounden to, bracketed, caught, chained, collateral,… …
46tied — [[t]ta͟ɪd[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n A tied cottage or house belongs to a farmer or other employer and is rented to someone who works for him or her. [BRIT] He lives with his wife in a tied cottage in Hamsey. 2) → See also tie …
47tied to apron strings — If one person is tied to another s apron strings, they remain dependent at an age when they should be independent. All his decisions are influenced by his mother. He s still tied to her apron strings …
48tied — UK [taɪd] / US adjective British 1) a tied house is a house that you live in while you are doing a particular job but must leave when you leave your job 2) a tied house or pub is a pub that can only sell beer produced by one company …
49tied to someone's apron strings — idi tied to someone s apron strings, dependent on or dominated by the other person: tied to his mother s apron strings[/ex] …
50tied up — mod. busy. □ I was tied up and couldn’t get to the phone. □ The phone was tied up for more than an hour …
