swamped out
Drowned in work
Swamped out means overwhelmed or flooded to the point of being driven out or rendered unusable.
A basement gets swamped out during heavy rains.
The phrase emphasizes not just being inundated but being displaced or ruined by the excess: The campsite was completely swamped out by the storm.
Sometimes used figuratively for being overwhelmed by demands: I'm swamped out with work this week.
- overworkToil to exhaustion
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
- backlogAccumulated unfinished work
- overloadBurden beyond capacity
anxiety · saturation · chaos · exhaustion · inundation · deluge · under water · submersion · burden · marsh · deadlines · running behind · burnout · despair · overflow · panic · helplessness · engulfment
swamped outfree
Without payment or restriction
idle · unoccupied · at loose ends · twiddling one's thumbs · available
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