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mare's-nest
[ mairz-nest ]
noun
- something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax:
The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest.
- an extremely confused, entangled, or disordered place, situation, etc.:
We just moved in, and the place is a mare's-nest.
mare's-nest
noun
- a discovery imagined to be important but proving worthless
- a disordered situation
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of mare's-nest1
Example Sentences
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.
The automobile replaced the mare's-nest on TV last week.
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