gum up

"It's like Velcro dirt," he said, noting it "just gums up mechanisms".

And despite the claims that she’s gumming up the state’s process with her appeals, Gilbert has never actually reversed a council decision.

Axios reports that Trump's advisers are preparing for a potential third impeachment of the president and strategizing ways to pass key agenda items before a congressional trial gums up the works.

The outcry wasn't entirely fair to Klobuchar who turned immediately after the quote in question to discuss real ways of gumming up the worst actions of the Trump administration.

Many importers then quietly used the San Pedro ports to store containers, causing a logjam of ships waiting to berth and gumming up the entire supply chain system.