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"""stir up a hornet's nest"""
If you say that someone has stirred up a hornet's nest, you mean that
they have done something which has caused a lot of controversy or has
produced a situation which is extremely difficult to deal with.
According to my brother Paul, this Lonnie Norton was asking a lot of
questions and stirring up a hornet's nest around town.
I seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest. Three weeks ago I wrote a
column about the teaching of Shakespeare in schools. Letters, fr
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red-handed
catch someone red-handed
If someone is caught red-handed, they are caught while they are doing
something illegal or wrong.
In fact, the little lwzhi wasn't inside the flat, but on the roof and was
caught red-handed by the police.
Three smugglers caught red-handed with several kilograms of uranium and
other radioactive materials were detained last week in the southern
Polish city of Rzeszow.
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