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
And at week's end the Allis-Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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
It looked as if he had stumbled into a mare's-nest.
From The Voice in the Fog by MacGrath, Harold