n. 25B6; noun
a political imbroglio : COMPLICATED SITUATION, complication, problem, difficulty, predicament, trouble, confusion, entanglement, muddle, mess; informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, corner, hole.
(archaic) an imbroglio of papers : JUMBLE, muddle, mess, clutter, hotchpotch, mishmash; N. Amer. hodgepodge.