QUICKSAND


Meaning of QUICKSAND in English

noun

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Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand .

Gilbert's squirming body vanished into the carpet like quicksand .

It was like trying to shore up a wall of quicksand .

She felt a bit like some one caught in quicksand , whose every turn only succeeded in further compounding the difficulties.

The blackness was suddenly all around, closing in like quicksand .

The lock had been built on quicksand , and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.