Synonyms for quicksand
ˈkwɪkˌsændquick·sand

Princeton's WordNet

1. quicksandnoun

   a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy

2. quicksandnoun

   a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down

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1. quicksandnoun

   Synonyms:
   syrtis

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1. Aaron McQ:

   It's like waking up every morning in quicksand, it's terrifying.

2. Hannah More:

   Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

3. Art Buchwald:

   I worship the quicksand he walks in.

4. Barry Schwartz:

   The only way to get out of this muck, out of this quicksand the market's in, is to have a few good days in a row.

5. Susan Hough:

   If the sand is water-saturated, as I imagine it is in many places in India, it can start to behave like a liquid. Liquefaction has a couple of consequences for shaking : some of the potentially damaging shaking gets absorbed, which can be a good thing, but if the ground beneath a structure starts behaving like a liquid, the structure no longer has a solid foundation. It's like it's sitting on quicksand. Even a well-built building can just tip over.