"You know they'll get into a frightful mess without you, Mummy."
There's a frightful mess outside, of course, but the hospital itself is back to normal.
'This is going to make a frightful mess of my suit,' he said to Leila with another dazzling smile.
He lunged through the door and escaped, leaving a frightful mess behind him.
"Look at me - I'm in a frightful mess!"
A bullet makes a frightful mess of the cranium, you know.
They're making the most frightful mess of everything... Just as they've always done!
Some of them were in a frightful mess; work had been suspended and everybody had gone away leaving everything as it was.
Not today when the house is in a frightful mess and me hair hasn't even been done yet.
She's got herself into a frightful mess, and now it's up to her to get herself out of it.