Whether he did or no, I cannot say, but certain it is he always did make a mess of everything.

"I'm not more than half certain even now that it can be so, and I never like to make a mess of things.

He knew as little about a ship as a landlubber might be supposed to know, and his companion saw at once that he would make a mess of the story, so he came to his rescue by informing the assembly that a fine vocalist at the other end of the room was going to sing, and asked that the story be deferred until after the song.

Now you ain't gonna lemme make a mess on my clean carpet, are you?"

"I didn't mean to be mysterious; I was only anxious not to make a mess of the affair.

"It would make a mess, and we don't want to spoil Joyce's carpet.

V. be unskillful &c adj.; not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble &c 275; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark. play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct, misdirect, misapply, missend.

miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip &c n.. blunder &c 495, make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it^, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear &c (blunder), )mismanage) 699.

"I gave 'er a wrong name and address, just in case she might ha' heard about me, and she did make a mess of it; upon my word she did.

I suppose you can make a mess of your own life if you like.

You've no business to make a mess of hers.

Most people don't know how to lay out a database; they make a mess that just keeps getting worse.

I mean-unnaturallystupid, and who, should they attempt to sandwich football or baseball into their school life, would simply make a mess of both study and recreation.

Say, didn't I make a mess of it this afternoon?

Something always happened anyhow to make a mess of it.

You can't be a parson, or, indeed, anything else, for long, without learning that decent men and women will do, at times, quite indecent things, and that the devil is quite strong enough to make a mess of any human being's life.

I'll make a mess of things sure as preaching if I run into her now.

Their plans are clever enough, but they don't work, and then they make a mess of things much worse than you or me.

and dainty than they would like, smite them forthwith; and meanwhile the hen may make a mess on the table, and you suffer her.

Am I, then, to make a mess of this!I who have always been willing to make any sacrifice for my children?

Before you would make a fire in them days, you had to sweep out the snow so that it wouldn't melt up in the house and make a mess.

" "Softly, my friend; and let us not make a mess of it.

For he has joined many graceful words in delectable and poignant proof of just that lamentable tendency of man to make a mess of even his most immaculate conceivings.

I thought he had some sense, and that you’d see to it that he didn’t make a mess of this thing.

Now I made up my mind if she was going to keep up this sort of thing Jone and me would change carriages when we stopped at the next station, for comparisons are very different from poetry, and if you try to mix them with scenery you make a mess that is not fit for a Christian.