mare's nest

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I suspect that Congreve, like myself, did not read the Reliqui� very carefully, but it is strange that no other of Lady Gethin's numerous contemporary admirers discovered the mare's-nest.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

But I don't suppose the denial had the smallest effect upon Mr. KING, who probably went off and dined heartily on a magnum of mare's-nest soup.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 by Various