"You left us with quite a mess to clean up."

"They came with tools and a whole mess of wires," he said.

In reality, I'll probably just end up with a huge stinking mess.

"We can't leave that poor woman alone with such a mess, no matter what she did."

We learned long before Contact that there is only one way to deal with a mess like this.

I had left Madeleine and the rest of our team with a real mess.

"Anything can be an inspiration, and even with a mess like this one, something good could come out of it."

Or, you could come out of it with a mess.

Now you tell yourself that you've fallen in love with a mess of chemicals.

How did Britain, the model of privatization for so many other countries, wind up with such a mess?