jumble someone or something together

jumble someone or something together
jumble someone or something together
to mix people or things together randomly into a hodgepodge. •

They just jumbled everything together and made a real mess.

The army just jumbled everybody together, no matter what their skills and talents were.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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