0 deep wet sand that sucks in anyone trying to walk across it, or an area of sand like this: --
I seemed to be floundering deeper and deeper into the most lethal of social quicksands .
The country had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last.
Surveys had failed to reveal stretches of quicksand and deep clay.
It took 50 rescuers two hours to free a runner who got stuck in quicksand.
1 a mass of wet sand into which people and objects can sink --
We know that one nation cannot be built on inflationary quicksands.
I am not prepared to see my livelihood sunk in political quicksands.
Just think of the quicksand on which you enter by that casuistical argument if you seek to justify the proposal.
Probably the idea is quite unrealisable but surely there must be quicksands round our shores.
The assumed return of a positive rate of interest cannot be justified in the quicksands of the present inflationary situation.
It is on quicksand as far as its arguments are concerned on this issue.
He has liberated the entire national newspaper industry from the fetters imposed on it by the print unions and the quicksands of soft management.
Any debate about increased defence co-operation must not be allowed to grind into the quicksand of an interminable wrangle about a possible institutional framework.
