Mess Phrases

Phrases

• A bit of a porridge
• A dirty business
• Air your dirty linen in public
• Alphabet soup (a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC)
• An army marches on its stomach
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• Asking for trouble
• Attention deficit disorder
• Balls up
• Barmy army
• Be all that you can be (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Be all you can be (US Army advertising slogan)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Blood on the carpet
• Borrow trouble
• Can of worms
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Collectable clutter
• Complete shambles
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Dear Dirty Dublin (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Dirty but clean
• Dirty kitchen (An outdoor kitchen used for smelly food)
• Dirty laundry
• Dirty linen
• Dirty little secret
• Dirty look
• Dirty old man
• Dirty tricks
• Dirty weekend
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Do the dirty
• Do the dirty on
• Dog's breakfast
• Dog's dinner
• Don't mess with Texas
• Don't mess with my head
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Drummed out of the army
• Duke's mixture
• Eating disorder
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Frightful mess
• Get down and dirty
• Get your hands dirty
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Here comes trouble
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• Higgledy Piggledy
• Hot mess
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• In the mix
• In trouble

• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• It's all gone pear shaped
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Lash up
• Like something the cat dragged in
• Look a fright
• Look what the cat dragged in
• Looking for trouble
• Looking like a wet weekend
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Make trouble
• Mare's nest
• Mess around
• Messed up
• Messing about in boats
• Mix and match
• Muddle headed
• No fuss, no muss
• Nose for trouble
• Oil and water don't mix
• Organised chaos
• Pig sty
• Play dirty
• Play havoc with
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Quick and dirty
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Screwed up
• Seasonal affected disorder
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Slob out
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Stir up trouble
• Stop messing about (A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams)
• Talk dirty
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Dirty Digger (Nickname of Rupert Murdoch)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The forgotten army
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Topsy turvey
• Trail mix
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Wash your dirty linen in public
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Wreak havoc
• You and whose army?
• You dirty old man (A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son)
• You dirty rat (A catchphrase from James Cagney)
• You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now