bog down, to get bogged down

bog down, to get bogged down  {v. phr.},  {mostly intransitive or passive}
1. To stop progressing; to slow to a halt.
Work on the new building bogged down, because the contractor didn't deliver the needed concrete blocks.
2. To become entangled with a variety of obstacles making your efforts unproductive or unsatisfying.
The novelist wrote tittle last summer because she got bogged down in housework.
Categories: intransitive used in passive verb
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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