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quicksand noun. ME.
[from QUICK adjective + SAND noun.]
(A bed of) loose wet sand, easily yielding to pressure and sucking in any object resting on it or falling into it. ME.
fig. A treacherous thing or (rare) person. L16.
P. Arrowsmith By confiding in her..he had trodden unwarily into the quicksand of emotional dependence on her.
quicksandy adjective (rare) of the nature of (a) quicksand E17.