quagmire

nounbad situation
nounbog

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Word Origin & History

1570s, "bog, marsh," from obsolete quag "bog, marsh" + mire (n.). Early spellings include quamyre (1550s), quabmire (1590s), quadmire (c.1600). Extended sense of "difficult situation, inescapable bad position" is recorded by 1766; but this seems to have been not in common use in much of 19c. (absent in "Century Dictionary," 1902), but revived in a narrower sense in reference to military invasions in American English, 1965, with reference to Vietnam (popularized in the book title "The Making of a Quagmire" by David Halberstam).

Example Sentences forquagmire

But now am I indeed fast stuck in a quagmire of uncertainty.

The road through Thiepval was a bog, the village was a quagmire.

The pond was a thin piece of canvas painted to represent the quagmire.

Already our horses were stumbling over corpses as if in a quagmire.

The lane was muddy even in the roadway, and on the banks it was a quagmire.

In coming up out of the quagmire she had got mud on her feet.

Woe to the artist who falls into the quagmire of unbalanced intuition!

In a miserable street, where he looked like a peacock in a quagmire.

"But there is no enemy in this vicinity, except the Texans in the quagmire," added the captain.

Isn't there any way for those men to get out of that quagmire?

quagmire

can of worms

catch-22

deep water

difficulties

difficulty

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