What is the correct meaning of "held up" here?
Is it grammatically correct to use the phrase "held up" in the following sense?
- "I got held up with some other work", or
- "Let's reschedule the meeting. Looks like you got held up."
You can generally substitute "delayed" for "held up". Both of your examples read naturally to me.
The verb hold has many meanings and one of those is hold up which means to be delayed for something. So, an example could be: I was held up by the terrible downpour, so I could not make it on time.