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pitfall

Roget category 667

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#667. [Source of danger.] Pitfall

noun

rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snagssands, quicksandssyrt, syrtisGoodwin sands, sandy foundationslippery groundbreakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coastrock ahead, breakers ahead.
precipicemaelstrom, volcanoambush etc. 530 pitfall, trapdoortrap etc. (snare) 545.
sword of Damocleswolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the potlatency etc. 526.
ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort [Fr.]firebrand, hornet's nest.

phrase

latet anquis in herba [Lat.] [Vergil]; proximus ardet Ucalegon [Lat.] [Vergil].

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