He wanted out of the whole rotten mess.

I will wring victory from this rotten mess that you have created.

"If we give them one hard kick, the whole rotten mess will fall down," Political answered.

'I shouldn't have set foot near this rotten mess,' he wrote in the diary.

What an unholy, rotten mess!

I do understand, and that's the only good thing that's come out of this whole rotten mess.

They, and they only, would clear my mind of its confusion, and show me a way out of this rotten mess.

And most of all he hated the man before him, who was a summation of the whole rotten mess.

Your letter shows me what a rotten mess I have made of myself.

You've had your chance and made a rotten mess of it.