"hornet's nest" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Rex Pickett, Sideways, St. Martin's Griffin, page 292",
          "text": "“Great! A guy getting off a night shift who hasn't been laid in years finds his wife in flagrante with some hamburger-faced guy who hightails it out the front door in his underwear. We're walking into a hornet's nest, Jackson.”",
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