'swamp' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a large area of wetland such as a marsh, bog, or fen. For example: "The marshlands of Louisiana are filled with swamps."
She wanted a narrow focus on individuals posing a security threat, where Gove wanted to take on ideas, or as he floridly put it, "to drain the swamp" before "the crocodiles reach the boat".
Built by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan on the edge of a Florida swamp, and now run by George W Bush's former director of faith-based initiatives, the university insists that students "dress modestly" and pretty much refrain from doing anything that could be construed as fun.
The broad thrust of policy for those who sympathise with violence was so-called "drain the swamp" activities, including encouraging non-violent means of expression, coupled with attempts to show it could make a difference.
For all his unhelpful rhetoric about "draining the swamp", we need to know why he didn't do his own job properly.
Syria is a potential Vietnam for Turkey, it's a swamp.
More torrential rain worsened flooding in the American midwest, spawning high water that swept away an Iowa teenager, caused a traffic nightmare near one of the nation's busiest airports and threatened to swamp a Missouri town for the fifth time in less than a decade.
| Jonathan Jones "Our days were long, often trudging through swamp and rivers," said McPhee.
That bet will pay off as long as growth is not too feeble, interest rates do not rise too fast and the supply of new space does not swamp demand.
All that suggests upward pressure on prices is not going away.But even if you accept those long-term arguments, says Alistair Thornton of IHS, a consultancy, the market right now looks increasingly as if it is becoming detached from the fundamentals, as speculators looking for an investment swamp buyers looking for somewhere to live.
As late as 1850, the land set aside for Delaware Avenue remained an undrained swamp.
Once the euro is safe, the rest of the euro zone might just conclude that Greece will cause less trouble for the European Union inside the euro zone than outside, where it might sink into the criminal swamp of the Balkans.Yet much could go wrong.
