be a mess

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe a messbe a messinformal if someone is a mess, they look dirty and untidy, or are in a bad emotional state → messExamples from the Corpusbe a mess• I can't go out looking like this - I'm a mess.• Please sit down. Sorry everything's such a mess.• When the police called, I had just got up, and my hair looked a mess.• My basement is a complete mess and has been for years.• Nothing had worked out in S. F. Everything was a mess.• The constituency's middle ground is a mess.• The inside of the hall was a mess of rubble and charred beams.• The whole house is in a mess, but I didn't have time to clean it up.• It was a mess ... she had created a ghastly mess.• When legering from a punt you don't want to be messing about with indicators that require two hands to set.• Garbage collection and street cleaning were haphazard, public transportation was a mess.

单词	be a mess
释义	be a mess From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe a messbe a messinformal if someone is a mess, they look dirty and untidy, or are in a bad emotional state → messExamples from the Corpusbe a mess• I can't go out looking like this - I'm a mess.• Please sit down. Sorry everything's such a mess.• When the police called, I had just got up, and my hair looked a mess.• My basement is a complete mess and has been for years.• Nothing had worked out in S. F. Everything was a mess.• The constituency's middle ground is a mess.• The inside of the hall was a mess of rubble and charred beams.• The whole house is in a mess, but I didn't have time to clean it up.• It was a mess ... she had created a ghastly mess.• When legering from a punt you don't want to be messing about with indicators that require two hands to set.• Garbage collection and street cleaning were haphazard, public transportation was a mess.
随便看	shake hands with shake hands with somebody shake off shake off your image as shake off your image/reputation as something shake off your reputation as shake out shake out shake out from shake out of shake out off shake shake hands with shake somebody → down shake somebody/something ↔ off shake somebody/something ↔ up shake somebody’s confidence/beliefs etc shake somebody’s hand/shake hands with somebody shake something out of/off/from something shake something → out shake the foundations of shake to its foundations shake up shake with anger etc shake with emotion etc shake with fear etc