mare's nest: Word of the day for July 23, 2016

mare's nest , n :
A great discovery which turns out to be illusory; a hoax. A confused or complicated situation; a muddle. A memorial to the discovery of the Piltdown Man, later revealed as a hoax, was unveiled in Piltdown, East Sussex, UK, on this day in 1938.
July 23, 2016