单词 | mare's-nest |
释义 | mare's-nest /mairz"nest'/, n. 1. something imagined to be an extraordinary discovery but proving to be a delusion or a hoax: The announced cure for the disease was merely another mare's-nest. 2. an extremely confused, entangled, or disordered place, situation, etc.: We just moved in, and the place is a mare's-nest. [1610-20] |
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