be tied up with something

I don't want to tie up the line with a lot of other calls.

Here we had eight players tied up with $54 million.

If we want to do something now to get another place, everything is tied up with him.

My father was tied up with a very involved financial matter.

I just don't see how it can tie up with anything.

I usually take it over myself if I'm not tied up with something else at the moment.

They knew I could have tied them up with her death and that would be coming too close to home.

Much of his work was tied up with religious affairs.

And most of them seem to be tied up with Dave.

The trouble is, he's going to be tied up with all this now.