wallow in the mire
Example Sentences
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Portrait photos depict the Doors at their Aquarian zenith, shaggy and seditious, without time to wallow in the mire.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2017
That was evident back in the '60s; 1991 is no time to wallow in the mire.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of those fine fellows who wallow in the mire and then expect us to make exceptions.
From Moral by Recht, Charles
Alas, alas! they turn their backs upon me, And rather choose to wallow in the mire Of want, and torpid inactivity, Than by one bold and masterly exertion Themselves ennoble, and enrich their country!
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
The same passion which may wallow in the mire is capable of rising to the loftiest heights—of penetrating the inmost secret of philosophy.
From Symposium by Jowett, Benjamin
