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quagmire

A soft and muddy or swampy area of ground. A difficult or confusing situation.

quagmire

(= mire) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

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The rain turned the road into a quagmire.

Movie subtitles

How can I help you get rid of this fear, this mental quagmire you've got into?
Quagmire Number 13.
Was it absolutely necessary to land in a quagmire?
I could give this quagmire a good shake for my grand finale.
It has a quagmire that way.
Kate, look, i know life is just one endless quagmire of futility, broken dreams, and smashed hopes.
I'm starting to escape from a marsh, a mire, a quagmire.
Now, why are we doomed to this Quimby quagmire, you ask O reasonable listener?
You didn't come from London to get stuck in a quagmire.
Give me a quagmire any day.
Kevin asked me to Quagmire's millennium party.
Oh, actually, I'm just stopping off at Quagmire's.
It's Glen Quagmire, the wacky next-door neighbor.
Guys, I want to say a toast to you, Quagmire, Cleveland.
Do not you remember anything about this? His jeep got stuck in a quagmire.
Next time you step into the quagmire, I'll make certain you never step out.
Leave that thing where it belongs in the quagmire of your brain.
Listen, this war is in danger of going all quagmire on me.
Quagmire.
It's a legal quagmire.
It's a big quagmire.
This sounds like a quagmire.
Hey, Quagmire, how was your date last night?
That's weird. Looks like she's coming out of Quagmire's house.
I'm gone for one night, and you sleep with Quagmire?
We're the ones who were meant to be together, not you and Quagmire.
Peter, the Country Club Dance is where Lois said she fell in love with Quagmire.
Use my name to get out of the quagmire!
I'm suffocating in this quagmire of connections and ingratiations.
He wants to make the quagmire arable And clean the bay of gall.
Same old emotional quagmire down there, I suppose.
Mr Quagmire, can I use your toothpaste?
Hey, Quagmire, I'm also getting a boat too.
Hey, Quagmire, maybe the comedian will tell some jokes about boats or boating or owning a boat.
Hey, Quagmire.

News and current affairs

The soft patch may be closer to a quagmire.
The new US Congress is looking for scapegoats for the country's economic quagmire.
Though triggered by the need to devise an exit strategy from the Iraqi quagmire, the Iraq Study Group's grim report is a devastating indictment of the Bush administration's entire foreign policy.
Both are marked by a defiant nationalism, and both feel irresistible, all the more so because they sense that the United States is in decline as a result of the quagmire in Iraq, if not in Afghanistan as well.
There is no easy way out of this quagmire.
Currently proposed agreements with India compound this quagmire and further undermine the global pact for peace represented by the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
Moreover, unlike the West, which is trapped in a dysfunctional political quagmire, China has both the commitment and the wherewithal to deliver on that strategy.
Many Americans will reject Bush this November because of the poor performance of the economy or the quagmire in Iraq.
The Afghan quagmire and America's image are not the only problems facing NATO.
That absence of self-criticism is what led America into the Iraq quagmire.
So the regime hopes that Iraq becomes a quagmire, forcing the US to ask Syria for help.
The deeper America sank into the Iraqi quagmire, the more the US began to turn a blind eye to the region's surviving dictators, particularly those in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Pakistan.
But it won't be easy for him, either, because America is caught in a quagmire.
After its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade, the US can hardly afford a Syrian quagmire.
In February 1984, facing a quagmire, Reagan acceded to Vice President George H.W. Bush's recommendation to get out of Lebanon.
The US, now out of the quagmire, exercises limited influence from afar.
Second, no durable economic and financial solutions are possible without cooperatively addressing the country's political quagmire.
Moreover, her campaign is struggling to escape the quagmire produced by revelations that she conducted official business on a private email server during her tenure as Obama's Secretary of State.
Trapped in a post-crisis quagmire of zero interest rates and swollen balance sheets, the world's major central banks do not have an effective strategy for regaining control over financial markets or the real economies that they are supposed to manage.
The Arab quagmire may not be creating conditions for peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
Before Afghanistan becomes a Vietnam-style quagmire, Obama must rethink his plan for another troop surge.
The Bush administration is hoping, somehow, to forestall a wave of foreclosures - thereby passing the economy's problems on to the next president, just as it is doing with the Iraq quagmire.
Progress on these fronts will not be possible if the US and China remain stuck in the quagmire of codependency.
The difference is that South Korea may still have time to ameliorate these trends, and avoid a Japanese-style quagmire of permanent low growth and long-term decline.
Turkey, a responsible regional power, has so far resisted being drawn into the Syrian quagmire, but its effects can be seen in the rising tensions between the country's Sunni majority and the Shia Alevi sect.
While the West is busy fighting the Taliban, the Russians, like the other regional powers, are building roads and electricity stations, and conceiving regional diplomatic solutions to what has become a Vietnam-like quagmire for the West.
But military dominance alone is unable to confer authority, as the Afghan quagmire reminds us every day.

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