Mare's Nest

Domain	Definition
Literature	Mare's Nest To find a mare's nest is to make what you suppose to be a great discovery, but which turns out to be all moonshine. "Why dost thou laugh? What mare's nest hast thou found?" Beaumont and Fletcher: Bonduca, v. 2. "Are we to believe that the governor, executive council, the officers, and merchants have been finding mare's nests only?"- The Times. N.B. In some parts of Scotland they use instead a skate's nest. In Gloucestershire a long-winded tale is called a Horse-nest. In Cornwall they say You have found a wee's nest, and are laughing over the eggs. In Devon, nonsense is called a blind mare's nest. Holinshed calls a gallows a foul's nest (iii.). In French the corresponding phrase is "Nid de lapin; Nid d'une souris dans Voreille d'un chat. " (See Chat.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	MARE'S NEST. He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent cause. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Expression: Mare's Nest

Modern Translation: Mare's Nest

Language		Translations for "mare's nest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏إحباط (chill, defeat, frustration). (various references)

Bulgarian		празна работа. (various references)

Czech		iluze (illusion, pipe dream, vision). (various references)

French		illusion. (various references)

Greek		μάταια αποκάλυψη. (various references)

Hungarian		vaklárma (false alarm, false fire), hírlapi kacsa (canard), alapos tévedés. (various references)

Manx		edd garran, edd coar ny hastan. (various references)

Pig Latin		are'smay estnay

Romanian		iluzie (delusion, fume, phantom, self-deceit, shade, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Russian		попасть пальцем в небо (find a mare's nest, find a mare's-nest). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		iluzija (fancy, illusion, mirage, trick). (various references)

Spanish		ilusión (a flight of fancy, deception, delusion, dream, eagerness, hallucination, hope, illusion, phantasm). (various references)

Swedish		värdelös upptäckt (mare's-nest), illusion (deception, delusion, fantasy, illusion, mare's-nest, mirage). (various references)

Turkish		havayı alma, görünüşte önemli değersiz buluş, boşa çıkma (frustration, miscarriage), asılsız haber (canard). (various references)

Ukrainian		ілюзія (deception, delusion, illusion, phantasm, phantom, phasm). (various references)

Vietnamese		phát minh hão huyền tình trạng lộn xộn rối beng nơi bừa bộn lộn xộn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Mare's Nest

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	Words within the letters "'-a-e-e-m-n-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: steersman.
	-2 letters: assenter, earnests, masseter, sarments, sarsenet, seamster, smartens, steamers, tameness.
	-3 letters: earnest, eastern, easters, entases, martens, masters, meaners, meanest, nearest, nesters, remates, renames, renests, reseats, resents, reteams, sarment, sateens, seamers, searest, seaters, senates, sensate, smarten, stamens, steamer, streams, teasers, tessera.
	-4 letters: ameers, aments, antres, aretes, armets, assent, assert, astern, asters, easter, eaters, enates.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Absurdity	Jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish; (no meaning); exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.
Untruth	Myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Mare's Nest

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Mare's Nest

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Slang in 1811

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Absurdity

Untruth

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Modern Translation: Mare's Nest

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Expression using "mare's nest": find a mare's nest. Additional references.
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