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

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

We shall work the case out independently, and leave this fellow Jones to exult over any mare's-nest which he may choose to construct.

From The Sign of the Four by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The machine that was growing in a mare's-nest on the second floor began to evolve faster.

From The Fourth R by Smith, George Oliver