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Soft, boggy ground; figuratively, a difficult situation from which escape is hard.

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quagmire

Conflicting promises drew the committee into a quagmire of scheduling problems.
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The search became a quagmire when each available room depended on another booking being moved first.
From When One Change Leads to Another.
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