0 deep wet sand that sucks in anyone trying to walk across it, or an area of sand like this: --
It took 50 rescuers two hours to free a runner who got stuck in quicksand.
Surveys had failed to reveal stretches of quicksand and deep clay.
The country had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last.
I seemed to be floundering deeper and deeper into the most lethal of social quicksands .
1 a mass of wet sand into which people and objects can sink --
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
We kunnen het stap voor stap voltooien, hoe lang de weg ook is en het kan niet worden voltooid, hoe kort de weg ook is, als je niet eens je voetafdruk markeert.