fourmilière

From fourmi.

• IPA^(key): /fuʁ.mi.ljɛʁ/

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fourmilière f (plural fourmilières)

1. anthill

   donner un coup de pied dans la fourmilière ― to stir up a hornets' nest, to stir things up (literally, “to give a kick in the anthill”)

2. (figuratively) beehive (place full of activity, or in which people are very busy)

• fourmilier

• termitière

• “fourmilière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.