We went out on the lake and caught a whole mess of bluegill.
•I cooked up a mess of chili and had all my friends over to eat it.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
mess — mess1 [ mes ] noun ** ▸ 1 when someone/something is dirty ▸ 2 when there are problems ▸ 3 someone with problems ▸ 4 solid waste from animal ▸ 5 mess hall ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count or uncount a situation in which a place is dirty or not neat: Your… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
mess — mess1 S2 [mes] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(dirty/untidy)¦ 2¦(problems/difficulties)¦ 3 make a mess of (doing) something 4¦(person)¦ 5 a mess of something 6¦(army/navy)¦ 7¦(waste substance)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: mes … Dictionary of contemporary English
mess around — {v. phr.} 1. To engage in idle or purposeless activity. * /Come on, you guys, start doing some work, don t just mess around all day!/ 2. {vulgar} To be promiscuous; to indulge in sex with little discrimination as to who the partner is. * /Allen… … Dictionary of American idioms
mess around — {v. phr.} 1. To engage in idle or purposeless activity. * /Come on, you guys, start doing some work, don t just mess around all day!/ 2. {vulgar} To be promiscuous; to indulge in sex with little discrimination as to who the partner is. * /Allen… … Dictionary of American idioms
mess — 1 noun 1 DIRTY/UNTIDY (singular, uncountable) a situation in which a place looks very untidy or dirty, with things spread all around: Clean up this mess! | The house was an awful mess after the party. | make a mess: You can make cookies if you… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
mess up — phrasal verb Word forms mess up : present tense I/you/we/they mess up he/she/it messes up present participle messing up past tense messed up past participle messed up 1) [intransitive/transitive] to make a mistake, or to do something badly She… … English dictionary
mess-up — noun (C) informal a situation in which someone has done something badly or made a lot of mistakes: The whole thing had been a mess up from start to finish. messy / mesi/ adjective 1 dirty or untidy: messy saucepans | Sorry the place is so messy,… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
take charge of something — take charge (of (something)) to do something to control a situation or organization. Germany, Switzerland, and France still have the best teams, and they will take charge of these games. When the union needed someone to clean up its finances, I… … New idioms dictionary
List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L — Differences between American and British English American English … Wikipedia
make — 1 verb past tense and past participle made, PRODUCE STH 1 (T) to produce something by working: I m going to make a cake for Sam s birthday. | Did you make that dress yourself? | a car made in Japan | They re making a documentary about the Civil… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Yiddish words used by English-speaking Jews — Yiddish words may be used in a primarily English language context. An English sentence that uses these words sometimes is said to be in Yinglish, however the primary meaning of Yinglish is an anglicism used in Yiddish. This secondary sense of the … Wikipedia
