I’ve been snowed under by reports from over 200 organizations.
The factory received so many orders that it was snowed under with work.
The disabled girl was snowed under with Christmas letters.
Англо-русский словарь идиом и фразовых глаголов. 2013.
snow under — transitive verb 1. : to overwhelm beyond the capacity for absorbing or dealing with something snowed under by correspondence and paper work Raymond Chandler 2. : to defeat by a large margin snowed him under with some 4000 write in votes for… … Useful english dictionary
snow under — {v.} 1. To cover over with snow. * /The doghouse was snowed under during the blizzard./ 2. {informal} To give so much of something that it cannot be taken care of; to weigh down by so much of something that you cannot do anything about it.… … Dictionary of American idioms
snow under — {v.} 1. To cover over with snow. * /The doghouse was snowed under during the blizzard./ 2. {informal} To give so much of something that it cannot be taken care of; to weigh down by so much of something that you cannot do anything about it.… … Dictionary of American idioms
snow\ under — v 1. To cover over with snow. The doghouse was snowed under during the blizzard. 2. informal To give so much of something that it cannot be taken care of; to weigh down by so much of something that you cannot do anything about it. Usually used in … Словарь американских идиом
snow under — Synonyms and related words: blank, bulldoze, clobber, cream, defeat utterly, frost, hail, ice, ice over, ice up, overbear, overwhelm, paste, schmear, shellac, shut out, skunk, sleet, smear, snow, snow in, steamroller, whelm, whitewash, whomp,… … Moby Thesaurus
snow under — have or get so much of something that it can t be taken care of I have been snowed under with paperwork during the last few weeks … Idioms and examples
snow under — transitive verb Date: 1880 1. to overwhelm especially in excess of capacity to absorb or deal with something 2. to defeat by a large margin … New Collegiate Dictionary
snow under — verb To overwhelm (with large quantities of something to be dealt with) … Wiktionary
snow — [snō] n. [ME < OE snaw, akin to Ger schnee < IE base * sneigwh , to snow, * snoigwhos, snow > OIr snechta, Russ snieg, L nix (gen. nivis)] 1. particles of water vapor which when frozen in the upper air fall to earth as soft, white,… … English World dictionary
snow — snowless, adj. snowlike, adj. /snoh/, n. 1. Meteorol. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the… … Universalium
snow — Synonyms and related words: Benzedrine, Benzedrine pill, C, Dexamyl, Dexamyl pill, Dexedrine, Dexedrine pill, Methedrine, accord, administer, afford, alabaster, allot, allow, amphetamine, amphetamine sulfate, avalanche, award, bamboozle, beguile … Moby Thesaurus
