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hornet's nest
noun
a large amount of activity, trouble, hostility, or animosity: His investigation stirred up a hornet's nest, resulting in major shifts in personnel.
Origin:
1730–40
1730–40
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| hornet's nest | |
noun | |
| 1. | a highly contentious or hazardous situation; "talk of invading Iraq stirred up a political hornets' nest" |
| 2. | habitation for wasps or hornets [syn: wasp's nest] |
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Hornets-nest
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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