rat's nest
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Your weird little rat’s nest—I always assumed that Tess must be taking pity on a poor relation. But you’re rich, richer even than my family.”
From Literature
“Hey, Baby Mouse. What’s that rat’s nest you got there?”
From Literature
Deftly unraveling the tangled politics of the moment, Mr. Wallace vividly shows La Guardia juggling factions of fusionist Republicans, communists, interventionists, isolationists, Tammany pols and a rat’s nest of the city’s fierce ethnic rivalries.
Guadagnino’s driving interest is attacking academia as a rat’s nest of egomaniacs and cowards and insular, faux-radical thinking.
From Los Angeles Times
Desperate for content that might attract Disney+ streaming subscribers, Disney had Marvel start churning out television series, which resulted in visual effects of wildly varying quality and a rat’s nest of story lines that even some ardent fans, not to mention casual ones, had a hard time following.
From New York Times
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