banana skin vs mire

banana skin

noun
  • A cause of difficulty, or potential embarrassment. 

  • The outer skin of a banana, especially once removed from the rest of the banana, which may be slippery if stepped on. 

mire

noun
  • An undesirable situation, a predicament. 

  • Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. 

verb
  • To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. 

  • To sink into mud. 

  • To weigh down. 

  • To soil with mud or foul matter. 

How often have the words banana skin and mire occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )