• He says he has now paid the client her £400, while the delays in replying to the letters happened when he was snowed under with work.
• I was snowed under in college with exams, just as I am with projects now.
• The report, for the year 1999, shows the 11 member board is snowed under by a growing backlog of complaints despite a fall in the number of fresh complaints for that year.

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