tie down

tie down idiom
Constrain, confine, or limit, as in As long as the children were small, she was too tied down to look for a job. [Late 1600s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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