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
Hildred	-	English
Amina	-	Bosnian, Arabic
Gracjan	-	Polish
Lorayne	lə-RAYN	English
Kostandin	-	Albanian
Isaiah	ie-ZAY-ə (English), ie-ZIE-ə (English)	English, Jewish, Biblical