Mare's Nest (Noun)
Meaning
A confused multitude of things.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The new employee was overwhelmed by the mare's nest of cables and wires behind the computer.
- After the hurricane, the neighborhood was a mare's nest of downed power lines, broken branches, and shattered glass.
- The politician's explanation of the tax code was a mare's nest of contradictions and unclear terminology.
- The cluttered attic was a mare's nest of old boxes, dusty trunks, and mysterious artifacts.
- The novice web designer struggled to untangle the mare's nest of HTML code and CSS stylesheets.