The amazing thing is, the entire sliding, shrieking, hopeless mess hasn't hot the buffers quite yet.

Why should the poor old Kenyans now be called upon to sort out this hopeless mess.

For all of it, I knew, was a very hopeless mess.

Who were the good guys in this hopeless mess?

Lawyers think this way, too - figuring out wonderful explanations for hopeless messes.

It is already a hopeless mess at airports.

The city is a hopeless mess; let someone else fight the war.

You and your shoddy, hopeless mess of a Government won't be in power by then Vince.

The stash was a hopeless mess, all churned together and half - crushed.

Most were allowed to return last night, but some found hopeless messes in their homes.