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Mare's nest   /mɛrz nɛst/   Listen
Mare's nest

noun
1.
A confused multitude of things.  Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, muddle, smother, welter.






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"Mare's nest" Quotes from Famous Books



... hopes," he acknowledged frankly, "that I have been drawn into another mare's nest. Nevertheless, I am bound to ask you this question, Miss Abbeway. Did you leave your room at all ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... authorities agree that it is viperous in the extreme. Serpents are generated in various ways; the horse-runner, for instance, being derived from the fibres of horses' manes and tails, which probably receive the breath of life in a mare's nest. That such is the origin of the horse-runner the reader can verify for himself, by putting a few horse hairs in a basin of water and watching them till they begin to squirm. Possibly the shorter fibres from the caput of an African might in like manner produce vipers. The experiment ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 9, May 28, 1870 • Various



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