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#1 20-Sep-2008, 20:01Last edited by Tdol; 20-Sep-2008 at 20:10.
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#2 20-Sep-2008, 21:12Re: Tie
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#3 08-Nov-2008, 07:53Re: Tie
I think it means I was busy with my work, right?!
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#4 08-Nov-2008, 22:01Re: Tie
Yep. "He was tied up at work" = "He was focused on work to the exclusion of everything else"
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#5 28-Nov-2008, 14:30Re: Tie
Literally "tied up at work"
... works as an escapologist
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#6 24-Dec-2008, 15:07Re: Tie
i think it means he did could not make it to work because he was stressed
