1 a way of talking to or about a woman that shows a lack of respect:
You stupid mare!
2 a difficult or unpleasant situation or experience:
Influence of trace mineral intake of mares on the trace mineral status of their foals.
Detection of chemotactic factors in preovulatory follicular fluid from mares.
In 1954, the value of imports of stallions, mares and geldings was £5,287,000, and of exports £5,018,000.
I really think he is barking up the wrong tree there, and it is a pure mare's nest.
Is he not aware that these facts are within public knowledge, and that it cannot be described as my mare's nest?
Did the inspector who visited this man's estate count the number of mares?
About 100 mares of this type were submitted for inspection and thirteen of these were chosen as suitable for allotment and placed out with custodians.
He has raised a mare's nest, purely for the sake of propaganda.
