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nest noun 1 a bed US, 1990. 2 a hairdo. High school student usage US, 1961
idiomnestfeather your nestRich to get a lot of money so that you can have an easy life, often by using your powerful position to gain an advantage:Students and many of the workers no longer trusted the Party, which was seen to be feathering its own nest.Wetherby may have decided to feather his nest by using blackmail.foul your own nest BrEBrEto do something that spoils your own chances of success:By taking money from businessmen and promoting their interests, Members of Parliament have fouled their own nest.leave/fly the nestif a young adult leaves the nest, they leave their parents' home to become independent:Kids become adults and leave the nest, but when they go back home, they become children again.Our children have recently flown the nest, and we're enjoying some time to ourselves.a mare's nest BrEBrEused about something that you think does not really exist or is not really useful, although people are trying to discover, produce, or obtain it:It would be good to help students in financial need, but an accurate, workable definition of 'need' is a mare's nest.The inquiry should recommend measures to make tankers safer, but should not chase after the mare's nest of perfect safety.stir up a hornet's nestto cause a lot of trouble by making a bad situation worse, especially a situation in which people strongly disagree with each other:Fagan's article has stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy regarding surrogate mothers.We're not trying to stir up a hornet's nest, but we do want to let everyone know the problems caused by the levels of traffic in the village.On his return, the President walked into a hornet's nest of problems, beginning with the resignation of his chief advisor.
See:- a hornet's nest
- a hornets' nest
- a mare's nest
- a nest egg
- Birds in their little nests agree
- cuckoo in the nest
- dust bunny
- empty nest
- empty nest syndrome
- empty nest, empty nester
- feather (one's) (own) nest
- feather (one's) own nest
- feather nest
- feather one's nest
- feather one's nest, to
- feather your nest
- fly the nest
- foul (one's) own nest
- foul one's (own) nest
- foul one's nest
- foul own nest
- foul your own nest
- hornet's nest
- hurrah's nest
- it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- leave the nest
- love nest
- mare's nest
- nest egg
- nest in
- nest together
- stir up a hornet's nest
- stir up a hornets' nest
- stir up a hornets' nest, to
- the empty nest
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