NOUN
- habitation for wasps or hornets
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a highly contentious or hazardous situation
talk of invading Iraq stirred up a political hornets' nest
How To Use hornet's nest In A Sentence
- I toyed around with the idea of barging in on the main office of the company but I figured that might be too much like poking my head into a hornet's nest. Highways in Hiding
- His remarks about the lack of good women tennis players stirred up a hornet's nest.
- This hornet's nest of densely knotted dissonances and sound effects pushes the four players to the limits, but the performance was mostly a success. Juilliard quartet newcomer Joseph Lin challenged by lack of gravitas
- The British, even at the apogee of their power as world's prime empire-builders, knew exactly the cost of putting their hand into a hornet's nest.
- His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has stirred up a real hornet's nest.
- The new production targets have stirred up a hornet's nest .
- When Charles got the manager's job, it stirred up a real hornet's nest, because everyone was angry about his fast promotion.
- His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has stirred up a real hornet's nest.
- His letter to the papers stirred up a real hornet's nest.
- Sometimes, you see a hornet's nest, and some wise part of you knows that you shouldn't go poking it with a stick.