mare's-nest
81jam — I 1. verb 1) he jammed a finger in each ear Syn: stuff, shove, force, ram, thrust, press, push, stick, squeeze, cram 2) hundreds of people jammed into the hall Syn: crowd …
82predicament — noun how did you ever get yourself into such a predicament Syn: difficult situation, mess, difficulty, plight, quandary, muddle, mare s nest; informal hole, fix, jam, pickle, scrape, bind, tight spot/corner, dilemma, can of worms …
83quagmire — noun 1) the field became a quagmire Syn: swamp, morass, bog, marsh, muskeg, mire, slough; archaic quag 2) a judicial quagmire Syn: muddle, mix up, mess, predicament, mare s ne …
84quandary — noun conflicting appointments left us in a quandary Syn: predicament, plight, difficult situation, awkward situation; trouble, muddle, mess, confusion, difficulty, dilemma, mare s nest; informal sticky situation, pickle, hole, stew, fix, bind,… …
85shambles — plural noun 1) we have to sort out this shambles Syn: chaos, mess, muddle, confusion, disorder, havoc, mare s nest, dog s breakfast 2) the room was a shambles Syn: mess, pigsty; informal disaster area …
86Ffable — n 1. apologue, allegory, parable, moral, bestiary; nursery rhyme, fairytale, ballad, rhyme, song. 2. fiction, tale, tall tale or story, Inf. yarn, story, adventure. 3. legend, myth, tradition, old wives tale; lay, epic, saga, chronicle, Fr. roman …
87mess — n 1. untidiness, slovenliness, slatternliness, dirtiness, filthiness, Sl. crumminess; disgustingness, offensiveness; rathole, dump, garbage pile or heap, pig pen, pigsty, Brit. piggery, Augean stables, snake pit, mare s nest. 2. disorder,… …
88pigpen — n 1. pigsty, Chiefly Brit. piggery, hogsty, hogpen; enclosure, stockyard, compound. 2. hovel, shack, Both Sl. dump, hole; rathole, hellhole, garbage pile or heap, Inf. snake pit, mare s nest, mess …
89shambles — a. slaughterhouse, slaug ter pen, butchery, abattoir, Obs. butcher row.b. mess, wreck, disaster area, rathole, dump, garbage pile or heap, pigpen, pigsty, Brit. piggery, Augean stables, Inf. snake pit, mare s nest …
90superstition — n 1. blind belief, warped notion, fallacy, mare s nest; illusion, delusion, mote in the eye; prejudice, prepossession, fanaticism; irrational fear, belief in omens, obsession; myth, fable, old wives tale. 2. evil eye, It. male occhio; hobgoblin,… …
