English-French translations for snowed under

• débordé
  Notre propre collègue irlandaise, Mary Banotti, est débordée, en tant que médiateur européen, face à tous les problèmes navrants qui lui sont soumis. Our own Irish colleague, Mary Banotti, as a European conciliator, is snowed under with all the desperate problems she has to deal with in such cases.

Definition of snowed under

• Having a lot of things to do, usually work-related; tied up

Examples

• We are completely snowed under at work because it is the end of the tax year.

Related words

• oversnowed
• snowed in