Roget's Thesaurus#667. Pitfall[Source of danger.]Nounsrocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt, syrtis; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead. precipice; maelstrom, volcano; ambush etc. 530; pitfall, trapdoor; trap etc. (snare) 545. sword of Damocles; wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the pot; latency etc. 526. ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort [Fr.]; firebrand, hornet's nest. Phraseslatet anquis in herba [Lat.] [Vergil]; proximus ardet Ucalegon [Lat.] [Vergil]. |