hornet's nest

Example Sentences

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Curiously, I never really got angry at the North Koreans, on the assumption that if you kick the hornet’s nest and get stung, you can’t really blame the hornets.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet the first report of the year is often a hornet’s nest to decipher, because of winter weather and new methods put in place by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to try to improve the accuracy of the employment report.

From MarketWatch

“But instead of destroying the file, you raised a whole hornet’s nest of mess.”

From Literature

But it seemed we were going undercover right into the hornet’s nest itself.

From Literature

We were risking our skins in this hornet’s nest for some nuts?

From Literature