mucking up
Making a mess
Mucking up is making a mess of something, bungling or ruining it through carelessness or incompetence.
The phrase is British in origin and mildly vulgar, a softer substitute for "fucking up": Stop mucking up the schedule.
To muck something up is to spoil what was working or make a situation worse than before.
- complicateMake more difficult
- botchingDoing something poorly
- muddleDisordered, bewildered state
- messDisorderly, troublesome condition
- confuseCause mental disorientation
spoiling · ruin · going pear-shaped · tangle · misstep · fumbling · dropping the ball · mishap · screwing up · blot · disruption · bungling · fouling · sabotaging · balls-up · error · havoc · cock-up
mucking upfixing
Restoring proper function
nailing · succeeding · perfecting · pulling off · acing
mucking uptidying
Making spaces orderly
cleaning · tidying up · cleaning up · organizing · ordering
mucking upfixing
Restoring proper function
fixing up · repairing · mending · correcting · rectifying
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