Noun
Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter killing a few other notable faces (all of whom since died in real life) Homer causes Clooney to sink into some quicksand on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Source: Internet
Barney said: “I fell off a cliff at Bournemouth and had to be saved by a coastguard because I ended up in quicksand, which was quite terrifying. Source: Internet
If she always has to pay attention to the quicksand in her family of origin, she will do the same thing in adulthood when it comes to friends, acquaintances, as well as others. Source: Internet
Craft cocktails take center stage at this dimly lit, narrow bar, like the rye-and-lemon Jackel and the mezcal-and-orange bitters Quicksand. Source: Internet
It was as the newspapers were struggling to get out of the quicksand their scandal-mergering had landed them into that Lewinsky rode to their rescue in 1995/1996. Source: Internet
The toilet invention provides one clue, and the title a more obvious one, that Quicksand is a story of precipitous decline. Source: Internet