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View synonyms for hornet's nest
hornet's nest
noun
- a large amount of activity, trouble, hostility, or animosity:
His investigation stirred up a hornet's nest, resulting in major shifts in personnel.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hornet's nest1
First recorded in 1730–40
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Example Sentences
If we are to pacify this hornets nest, its high time we set about it.
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Confusion say, he who would poke hole in hornets nest had best be prepared with long legs.
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I aint writ you bout a low flung mounting boy up hear what put a hornets nest under my baid the fust nite we sogourned hear.
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The community was famed for its love of liberty, and was later denounced by Cornwallis as a hornets nest.
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Some time during the winter his cousin had found a big hornets nest in the woods, and had cut it down and taken it home.
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