mare's nest

Example Sentences

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“It has become clear that this mare’s nest could stand in the way” of deciding the case “or at the very least, complicate our resolution of that question,” he wrote.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2022

They'd keep slipping out of the stockade's granite boreholes and, as for his hair, how could any sculptor, no matter how gifted, be expected to reproduce such a mare's nest?

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2020

All this raises a mare’s nest of issues.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2020

Published privately in 1926, then nine years later as a trade book, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is often prophetic, predicting the mare's nest that the region would become after the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2013

She has found some mare's nest of a Christian plot,—by the way you are mixed up in it, friend Isidorus.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry