Quagmire vs Beelined - What's the difference?
quagmire | beelined |
A swampy, soggy area of ground.
(figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
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(beeline)
A very direct or quick path or trip.
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(mining, chiefly, historical) A dynamite fuse made with a small quantity of dynamite powder along its length, so that the spark travels quickly and at a specific known rate.
To travel in a straight course, ignoring established paths of travel.
As a noun quagmire
is a swampy, soggy area of ground.As a verb beelined is
past tense of beeline.quagmire
English
(wikipedia quagmire)Noun
(en noun)- ''That quagmire regularly 'swallows' caught-up hikers' boots
- The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
- ''Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union
Synonyms
* bog, marsh (land), mire, quagReferences
beelined
English
Verb
(head)beeline
English
Alternative forms
* bee-lineNoun
(en noun)- The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.
- Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps.
