whole mess

Frequency: 7.012.0 per million words

referring to the entirety of a complicated or messy situation

messADJECTIVE + mess

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whole

Examples (10)

  • That was what caused this whole mess in the first place.
  • Cleaning up the whole mess after the party took hours.
  • The politician tried to explain away the whole mess, but no one believed him.
  • She felt overwhelmed by the whole mess of her life.
  • Let's just forget about the whole mess and start over.
  • He inherited a whole mess of problems from his predecessor.
  • How are we going to sort out this whole mess?
  • The company's financial scandal created a whole mess for its investors.
  • Despite his efforts, he couldn't avoid the whole mess.
  • The children made a whole mess with their toys and paints.