mare's nest
Example Sentences
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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
And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the 22 hours that followed, the world press collected a mare's-nest of wild reports from Apia.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I say—I—and what in heaven's name, Polly, prompted you to bring me this choice specimen of a mare's-nest?"
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch
My cuffs will never wash white again, and all I have found is a mare's-nest.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
