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bog down
verb
To become stuck (as if in a bog) and unable to progress.
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But not to bog down there.
"Once the attack starts, you can't bog down.
"Let's not bog down on this," Judge Boyle would say pleadingly.
Terse truisms occasionally bog down Yoshimoto's prose: "When there's a plus, there's always a minus.
Even when writing about poetry, we bog down in the language of academia.
Neither as crystalline nor as lyrical as the early ones, they bog down in bold names.
Both accounts tend to bog down when they get to the Middle Ages and religion.
Mr. Garcia is worried about the potential for the program to bog down in paperwork.
Moving Peca from his line also seemed to bog down Shawn Bates and Mark Parrish.
But such a catalog approach, more reportorial than analytic, tends to bog down in detail.
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The Senate version would cruise to victory, too, though the government shutdown could bog down its march to a vote.
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