Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with mess in British Collocation
mess
noun
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
very bad or unpleasant
Despite all that happened some good has come out of the whole sorry mess.
How can you find anything in this unholy mess?
What a fine mess the Borough Council has got itself into again!
complete
I’d just got up and I looked a right mess.
20 years of underfunding has left the system a total mess.
type of mess
Kate’s hair was a tangled mess.
cause a mess
It is the government that has created this whole mess.
He was very tidy and made sure he left no mess at all.
Try not to leave your room in such a mess.
When he retired, we found that he had left the accounts in a mess.
deal with a mess
Mum ordered them to clean up the mess.
If the government doesn’t sort out this mess, the electorate will turn to extreme parties.
be in or get into a mess
They had been eating chocolate and were in a terrible mess.
How did the department get into this mess?
look a mess
I tried to tidy the kitchen but it still looked a mess when they arrived.