a mess of something

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha mess of somethinga mess of somethingAmerican English informalLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNT a lot of something a mess of fresh fish → messExamples from the Corpusa mess of something• a mess of fresh fish• By the door, in the middle of the working class district of Prenzlauer Berg, a mess of candles flutter.• I expect he found he'd sold his working-class birthright for a mess of Bloomsbury pottage.• I was afraid of doing something wrong and ending up at the bottom in a mess of twisted metal and broken bones.• He found them in a mess of vomit.• Polar Star is no exception; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters.• The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.• Most people make a mess of handling money.• The doors opened up to a mess of more wrapped, framed works scattered everywhere.

单词	a mess of something
释义	a mess of something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha mess of somethinga mess of somethingAmerican English informalLOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNT a lot of something a mess of fresh fish → messExamples from the Corpusa mess of something• a mess of fresh fish• By the door, in the middle of the working class district of Prenzlauer Berg, a mess of candles flutter.• I expect he found he'd sold his working-class birthright for a mess of Bloomsbury pottage.• I was afraid of doing something wrong and ending up at the bottom in a mess of twisted metal and broken bones.• He found them in a mess of vomit.• Polar Star is no exception; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters.• The shell hit the roof of the building and made a mess of the inside of the building.• Most people make a mess of handling money.• The doors opened up to a mess of more wrapped, framed works scattered everywhere.
随便看	be in the news be in the offing be in the out of the running be in the pipeline be in the position of doing be in the position of doing something be in the process of be in the process of (doing) something be in the process of doing be in the public interest be in the red be in the right be in the right place at the right time be in the running of the running be in the running/out of the running be in the same boat be in the same boat be in the same boat (as somebody) be in the same boat as be in the soup be in the tank be in the tradition of be in the van be in the van (of something) be in the van of