thornbush

American  

[thawrn-boosh] / ˈθɔrnˌbʊʃ /

noun

1. any of various shrubs or bushes having spines or thorns.

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Etymology

Origin of thornbush

1300–50; Middle English. See thorn, bush ¹

Example Sentences

It seemed to come from a twisted thornbush.

From Literature

Taran lifted it free of the thornbush.

From Literature

“I uncovered things about myself along the way. It’s like reading a book for the second time. I had to drag myself back through that thornbush. But I understood myself all the better because of it.”

From The Guardian

Conceived as the dual portrait of a mentor — Mandy Patinkin’s Saul Berenson — shepherding his protégé — Claire Danes’ Carrie Mathison — through the thornbush of the Central Intelligence Agency, the series has since been a cat-and-mouse game, a fraught romance, a stripped-down spy thriller and a domestic political drama; a critics’ darling, a disappointment, a comeback kid.

From Los Angeles Times

Aye, perhaps it was a cat and a thornbush, he thought.

From Literature