get oneself into a mess

I wouldn't like to see him get into a mess.

How on earth had she ever got herself into such a mess?

How did a nation get into a mess like this?

How you ever got yourself into such a mess God only knows.

How could she have got herself into a mess like this?

How do you think we got into this financial mess in the first place?

The very people who got us into this mess in the first place.

I don't even know how we got into this mess.

"You seem to have got my daughter into a mess."

Isn't that what got us into this mess to begin with?