| 单词 | to make a mess of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make a mess of c. to make a mess of: (a) to bungle or badly mishandle (an undertaking); (b) to put into a disordered, dirty, or otherwise imperfect state. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle botch1530 bungle1530 mumble1588 muddle1605 mash1642 bumble?1719 to fall through ——1726 fuck1776 blunder1805 to make a mull of1821 bitch1823 mess1823 to make a mess of1834 smudge1864 to muck up1875 boss1887 to make balls of1889 duff1890 foozle1892 bollocks1901 fluff1902 to make a muck of1903 bobble1908 to ball up1911 jazz1914 boob1915 to make a hash of1920 muff1922 flub1924 to make a hat of1925 to ass up1932 louse1934 screw1938 blow1943 to foul up1943 eff1945 balls1947 to make a hames of1947 to arse up1951 to fuck up1967 dork1969 sheg1981 bodge1984 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. x. 131 We then talked over the attack of the privateer, in which we were beaten off. ‘Ah!’ replied the aide-de-camp, ‘you made a mess of that.’ 1862 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 392 I am rejoiced that I passed over the whole subject in the ‘Origin’, for I should have made a precious mess of it. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. iii. ii. 186 ‘For Heaven's sake, do not try!’ says Belinda, in serious dissuasion, ‘or you will be sure to make a mess of it!’ 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast ii. 22 Boy, if you kill all the hardbacks that come in here you will make a mess of my clean floor. 1966 E. Wilson Jrnl. 17 Nov. in Sixties: Late Jrnl. (1993) 556 I had managed..to tell him [sc. W. H. Auden]..that his anthology of minor nineteenth-century verse had been made a mess of. 1995 N. Blincoe Acid Casuals xxvii. 208 You made a right fucking mess of my car, John Quay. I don't care to think about the fucking repair bill. < as lemmas |
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