And the store was a worse mess than the house.

Give people a hand in creation, they make an even worse mess than the gods did.

You're in a bad mess, but maybe we can get you out of it.

That was all right; he couldn't make the existing mess any worse.

He went down, his face a worse mess than ever and not caring a bit.

The mine could make a pretty bad mess of our water quality.

At least I couldn't make a worse mess of things than you're doing.

But then again, such a world might be in a worse mess than this one.

The rest of the world's in a worse mess than we are now.

I was trying to talk my way out of a bad mess.