tied up in knots

When I came up with predictions, I was tied up in knots trying to narrow down the list.

"It changed me from being a happy, outgoing person into someone who is absolutely tied up in knots inside, shaking."

That’s what happens when there are simply too many good movies and great performances to all make the cut: Even the hypothetical snubs I’m about to dole out have me tied up in knots.

Rd1 Ng4, and White is tied up in knots.

Two months later, the board beseeched Harrell to get involved when the City Council got tied up in knots about whether to offer hiring incentives to replenish the depleted Seattle Police Department: “Here is where Mayor Harrell should step in and employ some of the political capital he earned by winning 58% of the vote in the November election,” we wrote at the time.