what'y call a 'quagmire of opportunities'?

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it's not an oxymoron, is it? idiom maybe? malapropism?
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  • Re: what'y call a 'quagmire of opportunities'?

    Sat, August 15, 2009 - 7:23 AM
    I don't think a hazardous situation presenting opportunity is really all that contradictory. I would call it a phrase. A rather nice one.
    • Re: what'y call a 'quagmire of opportunities'?

      Tue, August 18, 2009 - 9:38 AM
      well a quagmire of opportunities? --- Afganistan War, singlepayersocializedmedicine, federalgovernmentdebt, fallingprices, decrease incomes, whatcolorisyourparachute?, bullishbearmarket... this is all just a phrase, a phase::: aphasia! The liberals are upto their necks in their quagmire of opportunities! hee hee hazardous opportunities for them.... more liberal taxes, more liberal government power, more liberal debt.... more more quagmires of opportunity hee hee
  • Re: what'y call a 'quagmire of opportunities'?

    Tue, August 18, 2009 - 9:41 AM
    yes oxymoron is usually formed with two words... opportunity quagmire, quagmire opportunity.
    • Re: what'y call a 'quagmire of opportunities'?

      Mon, August 31, 2009 - 9:26 AM
      A little fun with "quagmire of opportunities":

      Quagmire is really two words combined into one. Therefore "quagmire oppportunity" is a three-word oxymoron.

      A quag is a marsh or bog. A mire is wet, spongy earth, or a marsh or bog. So, would that be a wet spongy marshy opportunity? Sounds almost lurid to me. I'd love to see it used in a novel - "She offered herself up to him. He had a sudden vision of a quagmire of opportunity."

      Or maybe, in an historical context, "General Marion and his troops escaped into a quagmire of opportunity, where the mounted British Regulars were unable to follow."

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