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Meanings of tar pit in English

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Usage of tar pit in English
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He lurched forward toward me like a dinosaur in a tar pit.
Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
2
The minute the tar pit's safe to traverse, we need to start drilling.
Schild’s Ladder
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And you would be engulfed in them, like falling into a tar pit.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Her kid ate his tar pit soup with the nanny, not his mom.
Heat Wave
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Or was it not a forest but a tar pit?
Iron Council
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Kane is a tar pit from all I've seen.
Perilous Shield
7
And then held him over the burning tar pit.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
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They would permit the creation of the tar pit.
Schild’s Ladder
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The operating system market is a death trap, a tar pit, a slough of despond.
In the beginning ...was the command line
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Now I'm wondering if there's a tar pit here.
The Kingmaker
11
It looks like a tar pit when we're through.
The Menstruating Mall
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My God, you stood out at that bar like an angel in a tar pit.
Four dukes and a devil
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Percy had tried to escape that tar pit.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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I am sinking in a tar pit; I am running and the ground's gone beneath my feet.
My Sister's Keeper
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The gale became a bubbling tar pit.
The folklore of discworld
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The fact that the program runs like a woolly mammoth caught in a tar pit doesn't help, either.
Wired
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