snake pit
Example Sentences
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“They’re in a snake pit, and they’ve got to be very careful.”
From MarketWatch • Oct. 15, 2025
On the snake pit of a pitch and against the unerring Pakistan bowlers, England’s best chance was to attack, an intent that played into the hands of Noman.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024
Twitter has always been a snake pit catering to the worst of human impulses.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022
“President Trump sent me into that snake pit at the United Nations for a reason,” Craft said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2022
In Skadden, the legal historian Lincoln Caplan describes that early world of takeovers: The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
