How To Use Hornet's nest In A Sentence
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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
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His remarks about the lack of good women tennis players stirred up a hornet's nest.
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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
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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.
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His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has stirred up a real hornet's nest.
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The new production targets have stirred up a hornet's nest .
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When Charles got the manager's job, it stirred up a real hornet's nest, because everyone was angry about his fast promotion.
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His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has stirred up a real hornet's nest.
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His letter to the papers stirred up a real hornet's nest.
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Sometimes, you see a hornet's nest, and some wise part of you knows that you shouldn't go poking it with a stick.
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On the first of October all was ready for this audacious squibbing of the hornet's nest, and the fleet of investment (which kept its distance according to the weather and the tides) stood in, not bodily so as to arouse excitement, but a ship at a time sidling in towards the coast, and traversing one another's track, as if they were simply exchanging stations.
Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
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Oh, my, I hope through inadvertence, I haven't stepped into a hornet's nest.
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After doing call time today at Norwood HQ, I can tell you firsthand that your little stunt is the electoral equivalent of poking a stick at a hornet's nest.
Just FYI (Blog for Democracy)
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His letter to the papers stirred up a real hornet's nest.
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When Charles got the manager's job, it stirred up a real hornet's nest, because everyone was angry about his fast promotion.
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Jest like a hornet's nest: shake a stick at ary one o 'the group, an' they all come buzzin 'round te'ble miffy in less
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
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And if you stir up a hornet's nest, you create trouble or problems.
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His criticisms of the president stirred up a hornet's nest.
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‘You will observe,’ wrote Jawaharlal Nehru archly to a Cabinet colleague, ‘that we have disturbed the hornet's nest and I believe most of us are likely to be badly stung.’
