tar pit in English
noun
1
a hollow in which natural tar accumulates by seepage.
He was a dinosaur who, instead of crawling off to some distant tar pit to die, took an entire industry with him into the abyss.
2
a complicated or difficult situation or problem.
the tar pit of municipal poverty
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1. What tar pit did this crap ooze out of?
2. DavidLynch.com: Auteurship in the Age of the Internet and Digital Cinema Zoran Samardzija, Columbia College Chicago, USA "Your Eyes Are Moving" In a New York Times profile published prior to the theatrical release of Inland Empire (2006), David Lynch declares, "Film is like a dinosaur in a tar pit.