mare's nest

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.

This became a mare’s-nest when Nyclass opposed the mayoral candidacy of Ms. Quinn at the exact moment people within the A.S.P.C.A. like Ms. Adams were trying to curry favor with her.

Tarquin was a great deal troubled by the signs of the times; or, rather, he was made so uncomfortable by an evil conscience, that if a snake appeared in his path, it seemed to hang over him like a horrible load; and if he went to sleep, there was a mare's-nest always at hand, to trouble him with a night-mare.

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.

The automobile replaced the mare's-nest on TV last week.