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
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
"What is this mare's-nest, my good Tobey?" said he as the carpenter's mate stood diffidently fumbling with his cap.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
