English-Italian translations for quagmire

• pantano
  Abbiamo un esercizio di stratagemmi arenato nel pantano di una procedura, mi affretterei a suggerire. We have an exercise in subterfuge bogged down in a quagmire of procedure, I would hasten to suggest.
  “Solo la trasparenza può farci uscire da questo pantano”, ha detto il politico curdo Mohammed Toufik – a ragione. ‘Only transparency can get us out of this quagmire’, said the Kurdish politician Mohammed Toufik, and he was right.
• ginepraio
  Il leader uscente, cittadino britannico di nome MacGyver, non ha usato mezzi termini nell'affermare: "Qui si lavora in un ginepraio di disonestà e corruzione”. Its outgoing leader, a Briton by the name of MacGyver, did not mince his words when he said 'We are working here in a quagmire of deceit and corruption'.

Definition of quagmire

• A swampy, soggy area of ground
• A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament
• To embroil in complexity or difficulty

Examples

• 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

Related words

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• quinquagesimal