Meanings
nounhornet's nest (plural hornet's nests)
plural hornet's nests
- alternativeAlternative form of hornets' nest.
“Great! A guy getting off a night shift who hasn't been laid in years finds his wife in flagrante with some hamburger-faced guy who hightails it out the front door in his underwear. We're walking into a hornet's nest, Jackson.”
2004, Rex Pickett, Sideways, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 292
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