rat's nest
Americannoun
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Because rat’s-nest hair and cheap black leather aside, she nailed this one about 400 years ago: “Love Is a Battlefield.”
From New York Times • May 24, 2012
In her room she got the granite-ware stew-pan out of the 2×4-foot china—er—I mean earthenware closet, and began to dig down in a rat's-nest of paper bags for the potatoes and onions.
From Options by Henry, O.
It is our business to take cities and fortresses, whereas ye troopers, if ye come but to the poorest rat's-nest of a town, can there drive no dog out of his den.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
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