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Drowning in obligations while standing comfortably on dry office carpet.
means Overwhelmed with too much work or too many demands to handle right now.
from From swamp — the boggy ground that swallows whatever steps in — turned figurative for being engulfed by tasks instead of mud.
Nautical rootsOriginally meant a boat flooded and sinking with water.
American coinageSwamp as a verb emerged in 1600s colonial English.
Status flexOften half-brag: busy enough to matter, not enough to vanish.