4 Metaphors for messing

Our Mess was a great centre for visitors, both English and Italian, we being at this time the British Battery in the most advanced and interesting position.

And I'm convincedno, don't contradict me; I tell you, I won't stand it I'm convinced that this whole mess of mine is a plot of those rascals;I'm as certain of it as if they'd told me!' 'For what end?' 'How the deuce can I tell?

The officers' Mess and sleeping huts were a few hundred yards from the guns, right on the bank of the Vippacco, likewise hidden from view and shaded from the sun by a great mass of acacias, a luxuriant soft roof of fresh green leaves.

"Then he said he expected this was some mess; Naval messes were always hot stuff.

4 Metaphors for  messing