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making a hash of
vb. (present participle of make a hash of English)
Usage examples of "making a hash of".
Between them, Hardinge and Gough came damned near to making a hash of it, one by his old-wife caution, t'other by his Donnybrook recklessness.
Elthea's granddaughter was making a hash of the translation, turning it into old friends parted by a family quarrel.
They should interrogate Henrietta about her references to cosmological phenomena-Shipboard-Vera was making a hash of it, and Downlink-Vera could not communicate in real time, and old Payter did not know enough astrophysics to ask the right questions, so it was up to them.
Rather than trying to do Chinese etiquette and making a hash of it, she was taking the Victorian route, which worked just as well.