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made a hash of
vb. (en-pastmake a hash of)
Usage examples of "made a hash of".
As a man, his business career could indeed be called indifferent, since he made a hash of farming, tanning, sheep-herding, and surveying, accumulated little except a heap of debts, law-suits, and twenty children, and went bankrupt.
The gas, dust, and ions, the magnetic and static fields made a hash of long-range sensor instrumentation.
The humans' toot translations were usually excellent, but they made a hash of jokes .
It seemed to him, looking back, that mortals had made a hash of things.