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

Our discovery is a mare's-nest to them; but to us it is very real.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

He isn’t well, and he’s put out about this mare’s-nest hunt.”

From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by Boucher, W.