mare

noun

/meə(r)/

/mer/

Idioms

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a female horse or donkey compare brood mare, filly, stallionTopics Animalsc2
(British English, informal) a nightmare (= an experience that is very frightening and unpleasant, or very difficult to deal with)
- The journey home was a bit of a mare as all of the trains were delayed.
- I had a complete mare booking tickets for the concert.

Word Originnoun Old English mearh ‘horse’, mere ‘mare’, from a Germanic base with cognates in Celtic languages meaning ‘stallion’. The sense ‘male horse’ died out at the end of the Middle English period.

Idioms

a mare’s nest

a discovery that seems interesting but is found to have no value
a very complicated situation
- This area of the law is a veritable mare’s nest.

单词	mare
释义	mare noun /meə(r)/ /mer/ Idioms jump to other results a female horse or donkey compare brood mare, filly, stallionTopics Animalsc2 (British English, informal) a nightmare (= an experience that is very frightening and unpleasant, or very difficult to deal with) The journey home was a bit of a mare as all of the trains were delayed. I had a complete mare booking tickets for the concert. Word Originnoun Old English mearh ‘horse’, mere ‘mare’, from a Germanic base with cognates in Celtic languages meaning ‘stallion’. The sense ‘male horse’ died out at the end of the Middle English period. Idioms a mare’s nest a discovery that seems interesting but is found to have no value a very complicated situation This area of the law is a veritable mare’s nest.
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