free-for-all vs quagmire

free-for-all

noun
  • Chaos; a chaotic situation lacking rules or control. 

  • Deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others. 

adj
  • Open to anyone and with no or few rules. 

quagmire

noun
  • A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle. 

  • A swampy, soggy area of ground. 

verb
  • To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty. 

How often have the words free-for-all and quagmire occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )