in the weeds

Meaning

(idiomatic) Immersed or entangled in details or complexities.

(idiomatic, restaurant slang, of a cook or server) Overwhelmed with diners' orders.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

in over one's head

Examples

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens. Mark Boal

You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense. Richard Siken

Words in the phrase

in the weeds

Close letter words and terms

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