in a/the clutter
Frequency: 6.06.5 per million words
Used to describe something being lost or hidden within a mess.
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Examples (10)
- The tune is lost in a clutter of noise.
- My keys must be somewhere in the clutter on my desk.
- He found the old photo album buried in the clutter of the attic.
- It's hard to find the important data in a clutter of irrelevant statistics.
- Her brilliant idea was almost lost in the clutter of her anxious thoughts.
- The remote control disappeared in a clutter of magazines and pillows on the sofa.
- The core message of the report gets lost in a clutter of technical jargon.
- By the time she found her passport in the clutter, the flight had already departed.
- I can never find a pen in the clutter that has taken over my drawer.
- The important email was buried in the clutter of my unread messages.