mare's nest

Example Sentences

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The behavior Bezos describes in his blog post does, though, create a mare’s-nest of issues regarding the portions of the nonprosecution agreement in which AMI promised to cooperate fully with the government.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2019

In the 22 hours that followed, the world press collected a mare's-nest of wild reports from Apia.

From Time Magazine Archive

And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I say—I—and what in heaven's name, Polly, prompted you to bring me this choice specimen of a mare's-nest?"

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

The Company found to their cost, that it was they who were burying their treasure, instead of Captain Kidd who had buried his; so, having realized their mare's-nest, they gave it up.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.