mess
/mɛs/ noun C2- A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table. · the wardroom mess
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- A group of iguanas.
- A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
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Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He was blockaded in a tangled mess of vehicles and horses.
I’ve never brought up a child, especially a girl, and I dare say I’ll make a terrible mess of it.
And I get so nervous in an examination that I’m likely to make a mess of it.
She could see him instantly before her, in every charm of air and address, but she could remember no more substantial good than the general approbation of the neighbourhood, and the regard which his social powers had gained him in the mess.
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