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be in a mess

He was hit by a car and is a mess.

On top of everything else, the house is a mess.

Even her room at home had always been a mess.

Her husband had just died and she was a mess.

My God, you are a mess of a human being!

The bed was a mess, even blood on the floor.

She was a mess, but so were all the others.

But I really was a mess for a couple of weeks.

But in 1950, the rest of the world was a mess.

The left side of the boy's face was a mess.

He had hit me three times and I was a mess.

The last thing you need to come home to is a mess.

You end up with questions and sometimes the evidence is a mess.

The guy was a mess right up until the day he died.

They all looked at him like he was a mess on the floor.

People worked with what they could, but the whole thing was a mess.

I should have known this place would be a mess.

When it comes to power, the West is a mess.

At the present state of the art, it is a mess.

Being who he was there's going to be a mess.

It is a mess, but not because of anything we did.

Her hair, she said, would be a mess in the morning.

I'd come off stage and my head would be a mess.

We were in a mess, but what could you say?

They certainly were in a mess the last time I saw them.

Looks like every time we get together things are in a mess, she said.

We have to get the countries first to do their home work of why they are in a mess.

And that's why I was in a mess all the time.

Law, policy and practice are in a mess for many important reasons.

I’d much rather do something to reform society, which is in a mess at the moment.

From what I hear your back's in a mess, so you won't be able to fight.

She'd probably be in a mess trying to explain it.

You're in a mess; now how can we get you out of it?

The economy could easily be in a mess by the time of the next election.

My hair's in a mess and I can't get the salt out.

The country is in a mess because both sides have sold out to big business.

No doubt about it, the Republicans are in a mess.

Because of our sin the world is in a mess.

It was in a mess, as she had well suspected.

Its government is in a mess, particularly the school financing system.

I suppose people just have the feeling that we are in a mess.

US politics is in a mess too, but for quite the opposite reasons.

We don't have enough, because the trade routes are in a mess.

The Australian team looks to be in a mess on and off the field.

"We are in a mess now, so it doesn't make a lot of difference."

The country was in a mess; that's a nice way of putting some really bad news.

It has to be admitted that the law is in a mess.

Since the 1990 gulf war, Jordan's economy has been in a mess.