make a mess

Synonyms

butch miscount drop the ball

Antonyms

laver wash peel bream sluice gargle
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Examples

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. Frederick Soddy

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. E. M. Forster

Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny. Cesare Pavese

Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper. Ann Brashares

Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up. Deb Caletti

A traveller does not make a mess where he had made a camp as he might one day come back. Swahili Proverb

Words in the phrase

make a mess

Close letter words and terms

make a meal of make a meal out of make a mention of make a mess in the house make a mess of make a minimum effort