11.   Some of these districts, having been through multiple bribery and theft scandals, prove to be briar patches for anyone with a reformist bent.

12.   The catalog is a briar patch of rhetorical questions and explanatory negotiations, and that spirit is echoed on the wall text in the gallery rooms.

13.   The decades-old struggle to dynamite the artificial legal barriers fencing off banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies keeps getting hung up in the congressional briar patch.

14.   The neutral zone becomes a permanent sort of briar patch.

15.   The tumultuous history of the region has created a briar patch of titles, claims and surveys, that are often conflicting and confusing.

16.   Think of attacks from the left as the proverbial briar patch in the Joel Chandler Harris stories.

17.   Throw me in that briar patch!