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Discover Ludwig"get things mixed up" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to confuse or mistake things, often due to a lack of understanding or attention. Example: "I always get things mixed up when I'm under pressure." "I apologize, I seem to have gotten things mixed up. Let me clarify." "Please double check your work so we don't get things mixed up in the final report."
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I speak many languages, but even in my native tongue I still prefer to get emails in order not to get things mixed up.
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Truss has got things mixed up because she has confused two aspects of writing: the technological and the aesthetic.
I asked whether he ever got things mixed up, and he said rarely, adding that he thought chess playing had sharpened his naturally retentive memory and gift for organization.
Mr. Herkimer tells Dr. Durfee that he gets things mixed up.
Evidently that was one of the dummy corporations that paid the writers for the Nightstand Lines; but it so happened that my checks came from This-and-That Enterprises instead, a different dummy corporation, and the nice FBI men had gotten things mixed up.
It's a very common name and it's easy to get these things mixed up.
Our children got the word about the new president very soon after the news of the new pregnancy, and I'm afraid they've got the two things mixed up.
You already got a lot of things mixed up.
He prefers a richer stew: "In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better".
"You expect to find bits of bone in a churchyard because things get mixed up, so you then look for something connected to the leg and once you have that you know you have a burial.
"We've really come to a moment where architecture, design, art, music, and things get mixed up much more".
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