A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.
You will stir up the hornets. [Lat. , Irritabis crabones. ]
Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.
To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.