to mess with sb
111mess up — phr verb Mess up is used with these nouns as the object: ↑hair, ↑line, ↑thing …
112mess — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. difficulty, predicament; disorder, litter, jumble; botch. See failure, food. v. dishevel, mess up; litter, clutter; disarrange, disorder.Ant., order. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A mixture] Syn. combination …
113mess\ up — v. phr. slang informal 1. To cause trouble; to spoil something. What did you have to mess up my accounts for? 2. To cause someone emotional trauma. Sue will never get married; she got messed up when she was a teenager. 3. To beat up someone… …
114mess-up — noun (C) informal a situation in which someone has done something badly or made a lot of mistakes: The whole thing had been a mess up from start to finish. messy / mesi/ adjective 1 dirty or untidy: messy saucepans | Sorry the place is so messy,… …
115mess around — don t mess around with any of the equipment Syn: fool around, fiddle about/around, play around; fidget, toy, trifle, tamper, tinker, interfere, meddle, monkey (around/about) …
116mess around/about with — interfere with we don t want outsiders messing around with our schools ■ informal engage in a sexual relationship with (someone, esp. the partner of another person) …
117ˌmess aˈround with sth — phrasal verb informal to become involved with something that is dangerous A lot of the kids had been messing around with drugs.[/ex] …
118mess about with — Deal with in an inefficient or untidy way …
119mess about with something — Go to ess around (with something) …
120mess — mes n. disorder, disarray, dirtiness; predicament, quandary; place where meals are served to a large group (military, etc.); dish or quantity of soft or liquid food v. interfere with, meddle; make dirty or untidy; bungle; make an error; eat in… …
