hit a bottleneck
Dorothy: Why are you so late? We were supposed to have dinner an hour ago.
Paul: I'm sorry, the roads were fine until Malibu, then we hit a bottleneck in the narrow roads. The cars were barely moving. I was stuck for more than an hour.
Explanation: hitting a bottleneck means that the cars come to narrow point, like the top of a wine bottle. It can be used for any situation where things slow down and it is hard to move forward, such as in business or everyday life.
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