tied up

Fig. busy. How long will you be tied up? I will be tied up in a meeting for an hour.

mod. busy. I was tied up and couldn’t get to the phone.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Reinhold	-	German, Ancient Germanic
Joby	JO-bee	English (Rare)
Harshad	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Kichiro	kee-chee-ṙo:	Japanese
Kayleen	KAY-leen	English (Rare)
Ghassan	-	Arabic