Hung up
Hung up adjective - Having extreme or relentless concern.
Both terms in one sentence
- He was a bit hung up on proving his bosses wrong and one-upping them when a suspect committed suicide and made it look like police brutality.
Source: Cowboy Cop / Live-Action TV - For one thing, she doesn't seem to understand that it's fiction; she assumes the protagonist goes through a Transformation Sequence to hide from the witch hunters of the Roman Catholic Church, but gets hung up on the blatantly wrong symbology and magic.
Source: Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure -
Granted she does have things worth worrying about, but she also seems hung up on the idea that Patch will leave her for better women (despite him repeatedly proving he won't), that something's going to go wrong with whatever she's doing, that Marcie Miller will do something horrible to her, etc.
Source: Nervous Wreck
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Wrong and Hung up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hung_up/wrong
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