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Definition
a difficult, complex situation — especially one from which it is difficult to escape
or more specifically: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
or more specifically: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- But the woman interviewer from AnooYoo about whom he'd had such hopes was never seen again, and the other women he encountered, at the office or in the AnooYoo bars, were either mean-minded eye-the-target sharks or so emotionally starved even Jimmy avoided them as if they were quagmires.p. 249.5
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