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The phrase "a right mess of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation that is chaotic, disorganized, or problematic.
Example: "After the party, the living room was a right mess of empty bottles and scattered decorations."
Alternatives: "a complete mess of" or "a total mess of".
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"We've made a right mess of things".
Moreover, they made a right mess of the Lions scrum.
"He made a right mess of it all, and that was my answer.
This was a flat 270 pitch, minimum – and we made a right mess of it".
If he wasn't such a great horse, I'd have made a right mess of him".
That monstering that Dernbach took at the end of the India innings made a right mess of his figures.
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He is a right mess.
The screenplay can't decide whether they're heroes or idiots, and makes a right old mess of the facts of the case while it tries to work that out.
And after witnessing mankind make a right royal mess of everything in the years since, He created the BBC's Sounds of 2010 lists in order to punish them.
Corbyn understands why sanitary towels and tampons, designed to absorb a woman's menstrual flow – and save her from making a right old mess of her underpants, seats on public transport, seesaws and Peter Stringfellow's pole-dancing poles – do not qualify as a luxury and therefore should not be liable for VAT.
But he has left behind a right old mess on the centre-left of politics back home in Italy.
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