mare's nest

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.

This became a mare’s-nest when Nyclass opposed the mayoral candidacy of Ms. Quinn at the exact moment people within the A.S.P.C.A. like Ms. Adams were trying to curry favor with her.

Tarquin was a great deal troubled by the signs of the times; or, rather, he was made so uncomfortable by an evil conscience, that if a snake appeared in his path, it seemed to hang over him like a horrible load; and if he went to sleep, there was a mare's-nest always at hand, to trouble him with a night-mare.

I suspect that Congreve, like myself, did not read the Reliqui� very carefully, but it is strange that no other of Lady Gethin's numerous contemporary admirers discovered the mare's-nest.

It has its weekly "Ephemerides," in which every new pseudo-scientific mare's-nest is hailed and belauded with the unconscious unfairness of ignorance; and an army of "reconcilers," enlisted in its service, whose business seems to be to mix the black of dogma and the white of science into the neutral tint of what they call liberal theology.