Swamp
Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
To plunge or sink into a swamp.
To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
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Swamp Quotations
I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.
George W. Bush
Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
William Bernbach
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
David Herbert Lawrence
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
Yitzhak Rabin
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
Jim Harrison
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
John Fogerty
I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
Joe Murray
We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Ron Wyden
Swamp Translations
swamp in Dutch is broek, drasland, moeras, moer
swamp in Finnish is suo
swamp in German is Sumpf
swamp in Italian is palude
swamp in Spanish is pantano
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