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

But, unfortunately, when it's all done it comes to nothing; the whole affair is evidently, from beginning to end, a mare's-nest.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

That inscrutable idiot Brumsey has discovered another mare's-nest, and we are lucky if Gortschakoff does not call upon us for public apology.

From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James