For some time car makers have been treading water in a stagnant pool.

The ballyhoo; the hoot; the brindle of words and the stagnant pool.

She holds it out to show it off but accidentally drops it in the stagnant pool at her feet.

It was as if a sweet clear spring had begun to rise in a stagnant pool and had risen and risen until at last it swept the dark water away.

The ground on which it stands was a malarial swamp encirciling a huge stagnant pool.