| 单词 | arouse a nest of hornets |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarouse a nest of hornets 2. transferred and figurative. An enemy that attacks persistently and with virulence; esp. in hornets' nest, nest of hornets. to bring a hornets' nest about one's ears, arouse a nest of hornets: to stir up a host of enemies around one; also, trouble, opposition. Also, to stir up a hornets' nest. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] > deadly enemy > enemy that attacks persistently or virulently hornet1590 society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > cause a disturbance [verb (intransitive)] to raise a dust1649 to stir up a hornets' nest1740 row1797 to kick up a shindy1829 to raise Cain1840 to raise the mischief1840 the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > be an enemy to [verb] > stir up a host of enemies around one to bring a hornets' nest about one's ears1857 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] contrariositya1340 adversitya1382 champertyc1386 contrariousness1398 thwartingc1430 contrariancec1450 contrariness?1530 withsitting1532 oppugning1535 opposition1548 oppugnation1563 thwartness1577 adverseness1580 crossing1580 breasting1594 antipathy1601 oppugnancy1609 affrontment1611 opposure1611 thortera1614 contrariancya1617 obstancy1616 oppositeness1619 contropposition1621 obstrigillation1623 opposing1624 hostility1632 opposal1638 crossness1641 affront1642 aversion1651 oppugnance1657 shock1664 opponency1727 counteraction1750 antagonism1797 throwing1816 oppositiveness1824 kick1839 variance1842 opposedness1853 againstness1909 hornet1921 adversariness1970 oppositionality1989 1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C2 They are no better then the Prophets, which dwelt as it were in a nest of Hornets. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxvi. 78 I rais'd a Hornet's Nest about my Ears, that..may have stung to Death my Reputation. 1754 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. III. 402 He dared not to speak out, and provoke the Hornets. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xiv But Proudie, ass as he is, knows the world too well to get such a hornets' nest about his ears. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 21 An acid humour stirred in his Forsyte blood; a subtle pain divided by hair's-breadth from pleasure. If only June did not suddenly bring her hornets about his ears! 1921 H. Crane Let. 26 Nov. (1965) 71 But I also find that J stirred up a hornet's nest in me this summer with his words about getting away from current formulae. 1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism lxxiv. 360 It is unlikely that a Proletarian House of Commons will suffer the nation's children to go on being taught Capitalist and Imperialist morality in the disguise of religion; and yet, the moment the subject is touched, what a hornet's nest is stirred up! 1966 Listener 4 Aug. 177/3 Judges have stirred up a hornets' nest in the sacred territory of ‘the right to strike’. 1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam xiii. 200 On the third landing zone we ran into a hornet's nest. 1973 W. Tute Resident iv. 67 The Ambassador wants you removed. You've got a hornet's nest buzzing round your head in Whitehall. < as lemmas |
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