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
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
The machine that was growing in a mare's-nest on the second floor began to evolve faster.
From The Fourth R by Smith, George Oliver
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)
