devil of a mess

It had been a devil of a mess; but five minutes more would see it at an end.

Now, I suppose, I'm in the devil of a mess.

If one of your pupils should find it, you'll be in a devil of a mess!"

'Devil of a mess on the staircase, waiter,' said the stranger.

"Well," Gould snapped, "you've created a devil of a mess."

"This is the devil of a mess!

"Your kingdom's in a devil of a mess.

"We'll be in a devil of a mess, should the gossips get hold of that choice tidbit."

'Not to mince matters,' he said gloomily, 'I'm in the devil of a mess.

"I 'm in a devil of a mess, thank you; send that chicken up stairs, and come in and hear about it."

They were the Socialists; and it was a devil of a mess, said "Bush" Harper.

and 'Isn't this a devil of a mess?'

Arrested several days ago for counterfeiting, it seems he got away with a fortune in sham Bank of England notes, devil of a mess, what?'

And if there are high voltages, a few electrified particles in the wrong places among insulating material can cause a devil of a mess, as Alexis says.

On one hand you are saying this communication must not in any way be mandatory, and we shall have to watch out lest we end up in the devil of a mess.

As I sped along I communicated to an officer of the port that there was the devil of a mess upon the /Maria/ which he would do well to investigate."

"Apparently," Otho said, "there's a devil of a mess going on in Moneb, and we're liable to make it worse if we go tramping in before we know what it's all about."

"I'd say that until we do figure out the mess -and as a mathematician I expect it to be a very devil of a mess- we keep the existence of RD-34 a secret.