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a wrench in the works	To mess something up; ruin everything; mess something up	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
all over the place	Everywhere, especially chaotically or in such a way as to make a mess.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bitch up	to ruin; spoil; mess up	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
blow it	To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
blow it	To blow it is to mess-up, ruin, defeat, withdraw, prevent the completion of intended goal.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
bollocks up	To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
botch up	To ruin, mess up.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cack up	To mess up; to get seriously wrong.	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)
clean up	To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
clear away	To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
cock up	Unintentionally; to screw up, mess up or f** up.	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
crap up	To ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
dog's breakfast	An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
drive-by media	Media professionals who "spray" a bunch of repetitive misstatements, mistaken and misinterpreted news reports to cause excitement and confusion. They then figuratively "drive off" leaving the cleanup of their mess and hysteria to others, to correct and properly explain and interpret.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
extract the urine	To mess around, cajole.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
f with**	To mess with; to interact with in a careless or inappropriate way.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
flub up	To make a mistake; to botch or mess up.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
footle about	To pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
footle around	To pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
foul up	To botch; to make a mess of.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
foul-up	foul-up, has myriad meanings: goof-up, mess-up, turn out high percentage rejects, commit or cause damage, fail to follow safety regulations, fail to supervise, or orient workers properly etc.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fuck with	To mess with; to interact with in a careless or inappropriate way.	Rate it: (2.25 / 4 votes)
gunk up	To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
hot mess	A warm meal, usually cooked in a large pot, often similar to a stew or porridge; or, service of such a heated meal to soldiers.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hot mess	Refers to a person, thing, or situation in such a state of disarray or disapproval by peers, often in reference to physical appearance, perceived to be disastrously embarrassing, pitiful, or beyond repair.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
il ne faut qu'une brebis galeuse pour infecter tout le troupeau	One scabby sheep will taint the whole flock; One ill weed mars a whole pot of pottage.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in a pickle	Being in a difficult predicament; a mess; an undesirable situation.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
jack up	To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for f** up.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
je suis dans de beaux draps	I am in a fine mess, in a pretty pickle.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
je suis dans le pétrin (fam.)	I am in a mess, fix.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
la beauté ne se mange pas en salade	Beauty does not fill the larder; Prettiness makes no pottage.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lose the number of one's mess	To die, to perish.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
louse up	Mess up; confuse; put into a state of disorder.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
make a pig's ear of	To do badly; to make a mess of.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mandare a monte	To mess up, to ruin.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess about	To misbehave	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess about	To be in a casual non-committal relationship	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess about	To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess around	To fiddle idly.	Rate it: (4.20 / 5 votes)
mess around	To have a non-committal sexual relationship.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
mess around	To joke, kid, or play.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
mess of pottage	Something of trivial value, especially of immediate value.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess up	To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.	Rate it: (4.25 / 4 votes)
mess up	To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
mess up	To manhandle; beat up; rough up.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
mess up	To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess up	To damage; injure.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess up	To make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess up	To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mess up	To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)

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