hornet's nest
31nest — See: feather one s nest, stir up a hornet s nest …
32hornet — hor|net [ hɔrnət ] noun count a black and yellow flying insect that can sting you. It is a type of large wasp. stir up a hornet s nest to cause a situation that makes people very angry or upset …
33HORNET — (Heb. צִרְעָה), insect. Three times the Bible mentions that the hornet would be sent ahead of the Israelites to drive out the inhabitants of the land of Canaan before them (Ex. 23:28; Deut. 7:20; Josh. 24:12). Some contend that the reference here …
34hornet — ► NOUN ▪ a kind of large wasp, typically red and yellow or red and black. ● stir up a hornets nest Cf. ↑stir up a hornets nest ORIGIN Old English …
35stir up a hornet's nest — to cause a situation that makes people very angry or upset …
36Hornet — Taxobox name = Hornet image caption = Oriental hornet, Vespa orientalis image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Apocrita familia = Vespidae subfamilia = Vespinae genus = Vespa genus …
37Hornet Bank massacre — The Hornet Bank massacre of eleven Europeans, including eight members of the Fraser family, took place about dawn on 27 October 1857 at a station on the upper Dawson River in central Queensland, Australia. Squatters had begun to occupy this… …
38nest — 1 noun (C) 1 a hollow place made or chosen by a bird to lay its eggs in and to make its home in 2 a place where insects or small animals live: a field mouse s nest 3 a nest of spies/criminals/vice etc a place where there are many bad people or… …
39Hornets' Nest — Hornet s Nest is a 1970 Italian American war film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina and Sergio Fantoni. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065850/] An American commando officer parachuted into Italy during World War II… …
40wasp's nest — hornet s nest, center of hatred …
