My initial suspicion about “into the weeds” was that it had something to do with a golf ball landing in the “rough” (long grass), making it hard to extract without falling behind.Back in 2000 there was actually a Molly Ringwald movie about the staff of a restaurant dealing with a bad night called “In the Weeds". The restaurant term Is invoked when the staff is overworked, everything is going wrong, and total chaos is only a burnt fillet of sole away.Involved in the details: I’m in the weeds of planning my wedding.
Our waitress was so deep in the weeds that we waited 40 minutes for our burgers. (Of a restaurant worker) overwhelmed and falling behind in serving customers: Deep in/into the weeds, also in deep weeds: is an idiomatic expression which has become very popular in recent years:
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