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snake pits
n. (snake pit English)
Usage examples of "snake pits".
Fiction is a better world for me than the snake pits of Academe could ever be.
I created an Angarak 'custom' out of whole cloth, and Duke Aldorigen found my imaginary snake pits into which whole Drasnian villages were cast while shrieking in terror entertaining enough to bring him around to our way of thinking.
Still, it was far from the snake pits of fifty or a hundred years ago.