| 单词 | rat's nest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat's nest rat's nest n. figurative (originally U.S.) a disordered mess; a tangle, esp. of hair.In quot. 1850, perhaps literally the nest of a rat. ΚΠ 1850 Star & Banner (Gettysburg, Pa.) 26 Apr. She would as soon nestle her nose in a rat's nest of swingle tow, as allow a man with whiskers to kiss her. 1907 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 42 He stood there..his hair all rat's nests and one suspender broken. 1954 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 23 Dec. 14/2 The complex ‘rat's nest’ of wires found in most radio and television equipment. 1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) xiv. 171 The broad spectrum of mental impairments was still a rat's nest of categories, subcategories, and subsubcategories. 2002 J. Thompson Wide Blue Yonder iv. 274 Her hair was a rat's nest and she needed to brush her teeth. < as lemmas |
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