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

Yet suppose, after all, I had found a mare’s-nest!

From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

I am the more sorry because I confess I greatly regret that the mare's-nest of the Russian Memorandum of 1844 should remain unpulled to pieces.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox