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Mess Phrases

126 phrases and expressions related to "mess".

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
  • 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
  • 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)