Excitement and ideas were a bad mix with Jill.

It seemed she'd managed to get herself confined with just about the worst mix of personalities that she could have run up against.

But the drinking and frigid frolicking can be a bad mix.

Some parents who take tots on trips eventually conclude they are a bad mix.

The answer appears to be a bad mix of paperwork and balky computers.

He got the usual mix of answers, good, bad and abusive.

Funerals and the new year are a bad mix.

Not a bad mix, really, no worse than he had faced in the town senate of Mediolanum-how long ago it seemed!

"It was a bad mix all around," he said.

But, he acknowledged: "They don't have a bad mix of programming.