Sentence examples for mean mess from inspiring English sources

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I think I first saw the word "poutine" — in French-Canadian slang, it can mean "mess," among other things — ten or twelve years ago, on the menu board of the snack bar on the ferry that goes from Digby, Nova Scotia, to Saint John, New Brunswick.

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They used it to mean "messing about with machines".

"First of all, being wrong in this business does not mean messing up," Mr. Wolfowitz said, adding that Iraq, like North Korea, was among "hard targets" for intelligence analysts to penetrate.

Mean messes.

Having kids does mean messes, and I want it to mean messes.

I don't really mean messed-up in the sense that it is jacked or bizarre, though he does manage to get poetically unorthodox shit like Cash Money Millionaires, Morrissey album counts, sexy Muppets, and weed and Paxil and Vicodin into scenes where you would not ordinarily expect them.

I don't really mean messed-up in the way of that it is jacked or bizarre, though he does manage to get poetically unorthodox shit like Cash Money Millionaires, Morrissey album counts, sexy Muppets, and weed and Paxil and Vicodin into scenes where you would not ordinarily expect them.

It's not an accident, I concluded, that in Canadian French the word poutine means "mess," among other things, and though I had had poutine only once before, at a ski lodge in Quebec years ago, I decided now that when it comes to this particular dish, I am a classicist.

Singing means messing it up.

Traditional negroni contains gin, but this spritzy alternative is a splendid Christmas cocktail, and could well be a contender for a morning bucks fizz– sbagliato essentially means "messed up".

The flip side of that means messing with our genetic makeup without currently knowing the whole outcome.

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