Quicksand

Noun

 * 1) Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts
 * My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.
 * 1) Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
 * The quicksands of youth...

Thesaurus
baygall, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, breakers ahead, buffalo wallow, cardhouse, cause for alarm, clutch, complication, coral heads, crisis, crunch, danger, dangerous ground, embarrassing position, embarrassment, emergency, endangerment, everglade, fen, fenland, fine how-do-you-do, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, glade, hazard, hell to pay, hobble, hog wallow, holm, hot water, house of cards, how-do-you-do, imbroglio, imperilment, ironbound coast, jam, jeopardy, ledges, lee shore, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, menace, mere, mess, mire, mix, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, parlous straits, pass, peat bog, peril, pickle, pinch, pitfall, plight, predicament, pretty pass, pretty pickle, pretty predicament, quagmire, quicksands, risk, rockbound coast, rocks, rocks ahead, salt marsh, sandbank, sandbar, sands, scrape, shallows, shoals, slob land, slough, sough, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, storm clouds, strait, straits, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, thin ice, threat, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightrope, tricky spot, undercurrent, undertow, unholy mess, wallow, wash

Etymology
From quyksande:, from  cwecesand:, from  +, equivalent to. Cognate with kwikzand:,  Quicksand:,  kwiksandur:, kviksyndi:. More at,.

Translations

 * Bengali:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 流沙
 * Croatian: živi pijesak
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kviksand
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: sables mouvants
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: futóhomok
 * Italian: sabbie mobili
 * Japanese: 流砂
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: sandgeweorp, sandrid
 * Persian: ماسه بادی
 * Portuguese: areia movediça
 * Russian: зыбучие пески
 * Spanish: arenas movedizas
 * Swedish: