hornet's nest
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All that is to say, when Black moseyed into a Bluesky hornet’s nest about the upcoming HBO “Harry Potter” series, I honestly think he underestimated how much he’d get stung.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026
Curiously, I never really got angry at the North Koreans, on the assumption that if you kick the hornet’s nest and get stung, you can’t really blame the hornets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
They were trying to locate and destroy a hornet's nest after a positive identification nearby.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
The trooper said he “didn’t really see a need to stir up the hornet’s nest for such a minor violation.”
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
“But instead of destroying the file, you raised a whole hornet’s nest of mess.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
"I very quickly realised that I had kicked a really nasty hornets' nest," Spinks told us.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
In the meantime, the committee acted as if it knew it was about to make history and stir up a hornets’ nest of trouble, passing the subpoena motion unanimously in four minutes with no debate.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
By Wednesday, he was in the center of a hornets’ nest.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
Instead, it shrieks with the enraged buzz of a disturbed hornets’ nest as it shoots straight up in the air and zooms off forward at up to 60 miles an hour.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2018
There was this steady hum of the largest hornets’ nest except that it kept getting louder and louder.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
