A serviceman’s — or a dog’s — dinner

Usage examples of mess.

The most obvious solution to the entire mess was to recall the antivirus Teeleh had given Tom in his dreams.

Remade glands and astream with a rainbow mess, and this aggregate of criminals, this motley comes closer in freedom.

So I transferred the new barometer to the cooking department, to be used for the official mess.

The Baroness showed no surprise, but wondered whether the Princess might not have to lunch, and dine too, on some nauseous little mess brought to her on a battered brass tray.

On the run and panting-hot, Akarr located Riker more by sound than by sight, batting giant leaves away from his face and ducking --at the very last moment--a huge sticky mess of an insect nest that seemed to materialize at eye level.

Across the little space behind the mess tent, Blanco and Colonna were sitting on a bench, drinking from heavy earthenware cups.

Giles would bluster and bounce ponderously over the mess, but he would recover in time.

One evening in the mess he read us a Bnai Brith pamphlet which proved that in proportion to the population of Canada there were more Jews than Gentiles in the armed forces.

And Tante Lulu, the old busybody, the instigator of this whole mess, was there, too.

We could have eaten in the brigade mess hootch, but we would have had about the same food.

Fortunately, Dum-Dum said he had just the thing for them, a special concoction of his own devising, consisting of an astringent compounded of alum, sharkskin oil, hydrocortisone and a butylated cream to hold the ingredients into a semi-solid mass, guaranteed to either scare hemorrhoids back where they came from or simply dry the whole mess up into something that could be snipped off with a pair of surgical scissors.

Your own kitchen, so you can make those macrobiotic messes you like so much .

Max Keagan ate silently, moving his cookie to the far side of the tray away from Crusty while the rest of the medivac crew and medical staffers took their seats in the nearly deserted mess hall.

Mess Hall and, for the first time in over two weeks, filled and turned on the snow melter, and took a shower.

Now and then he messes behind his closed door with one or another of the peipis, the perverted boy inmates who drift through the blocks.