Originally Posted By: BranShea
What other sloppy or dangerous nests are used as a metaphor? The wasps' nest (political circuits) and the viper's nest (approx. as dangerous but wingless and more deadly) bringing forth "viper's brood".


We pretty much use hornet's nest as the example of something you don't want to stir up, whether politically or otherwise. Probably about the same thing as a wasp's nest.