Rabbit hole
Rabbit hole noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: shoreline residents are finding themselves helplessly falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to halt beach erosion
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Swamp and rabbit hole are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Swamp" instead a noun phrase "Rabbit hole".
Swamp
Swamp noun - A difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Usage example: with her credit cards maxed out, and the making of minimum payments a challenge, debt seemed to be an ever-deepening swamp
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