Weather sayings
What does “snowed under” mean?
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Overwhelmed, usually with work: too much coming in to keep up.
“Can’t make lunch, completely snowed under this week.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
From the literal sense of being buried by snow, borrowed for anything that piles up faster than you can clear it.
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What I think of “snowed under”
Snowed under: the only snow most people get all winter.
Snowed under with work is like a snow day, minus the snow and the day off.
If you are snowed under, I can at least tell you whether it is snowing.
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Sources: Common English usage.