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
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And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We have deemed it simpler to go to the first Elizabethan phrase-book on our shelves, and that tiny volume, in its very first phrase, shatters the mare's-nest of Mrs. Pott, Mr. Donnelly, and Mr. Bucke.
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Lang, Andrew
Yet suppose, after all, I had found a mare’s-nest!
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines