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"I've made a pretty thorough mess of things so far, haven't I?"
The charges would make a thorough mess of the chamber and cover our tracks as well.
The opposition will make a thorough mess of everything you've done, and you know they will destroy the country.
He had got himself into a thorough mess, and he had good reason to be afraid.
He doubted even Admiral Upton understood what a thorough mess the Enterprise had been handed.
It is obvious (or should be) that an influx of hungry, semi-strangled and homeless urban foxes into a rural area will make a thorough mess of the local ecosystem.
None of that stuff is very resistant, of course, it's all soft and mushy, so the bullet still has plenty of power to use up, which means it could make a very thorough mess of your stomach before it took a whack at your plumbing.