mix up
noun1
A mix, blend, or variety.
- Next time, let's ask a group with a different mix up.
2
Idiomatic A confusion or reversal.
- I refuse to send them any more money until they fix this mix up.
- Synonyms
- muddle
mix up
verbalso spelled mix-up1
Idiomatic To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.
- She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.
2
Idiomatic To combine thoroughly.
- All the smells of the food had mixed up together.
3
Idiomatic To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.
- She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil.
- The picture of their life that follows suggests in a few words a country kitchen—the sizzling of fish over the charcoal fire, fanned by the bellows to a hot flame, the mixing up of a Thasian sauce for the fish, the kneading of dough.1956, Katherine Lever, “Aristophanes, Comic Poet”, in The Art of Greek Comedy, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 140:
4
Idiomatic To confuse or reverse.
- I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map.
- I always mix up Jack with Jake.
5
Often, With be or get, With with To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.
Usually passive voice
- He got mixed up with a bad crowd.
- Then he got mixed up with an older woman.
3 more examples
- Now, he's mixed up with some half-baked religion.
- Hey! What're you gonna do? Nice college boy, huh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business. Now you want to gun down a police captain. Why? 'Cause he slapped you in the face a little bit?1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Sonny Corleone (James Caan), Paramount Pictures:
- KEELHAUL KEY!? That's that cursed island! Don't get mixed up with that place, for your own sake.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
6
To shuffle.
- mix up this Rubik's cube
- Related terms
- in the mix, mix it up