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
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
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.
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