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quagmirenoun a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapethe party was once again facing its quadrennial quagmire: the candidate sufficiently liberal to win the nomination would be too liberal for the general election bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, mire, pickle, predicament, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish something that catches and holdsa protracted custody dispute that became a judicial quagmire entanglement, mesh(es), morass, net, noose, quicksand, snare, tanglement, toil(s), trap, web knot, snarl, tanglecat's cradle, labyrinth, mazecobweb, spiderweb ca. 1580 |