mare's nest
母马的窝,母马窝,马蜂窝,母猪窝
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- : 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.
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
“Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.
In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.
“The thing [North Korean government] want[s] the most is the non-release of this film,” Schiff said.
A third cabinet member used public funds to pay in an S & M bar.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
Ajoutez cecy, s'il vous plaist, la grande difficult qu'il y a de tirer d'eux les mots mesmes qu'ils ont.
Neantmoins le vieil Membertou, pere du malade, conceut asss l'affaire, et me promit qu'on s'arresteroit tout ce que j'en dirois.