adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mixed marriage (= between people of different races or religions )
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Her parents disapproved of mixed marriages.
a mixed metaphor (= the use of two different metaphors at the same time to describe something, especially in a way that seems silly or funny )
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In a mixed metaphor, she said ‘he stepped up to the plate and took the bull by the horns.’
a mixed reception (= when some people like something and some do not )
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His first novel received a mixed reception.
have mixed feelings (= have both positive and negative feelings )
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Her parents had mixed feelings about the marriage.
mixed ability (= at different levels )
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a mixed ability class
mixed ability
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a mixed ability group
mixed doubles
mixed economy
mixed farming
mixed grill
mixed marriage
mixed media
mixed motives
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He had mixed motives for joining the army: a desire to prove himself, but also the desire to get away from his family.
mixed reactions (= some positive and some negative reactions )
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The book met with mixed reactions.
mixed signals (= ones that are confusing because they seem to show two different things )
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Our culture gives girls mixed messages about food, with skinny models and fast-food commercials competing for attention.
mixed up
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He’s the last person I’d expect to be mixed up in something like this.
mixed/conflicting emotions (= a mixture of very different feelings )
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She had mixed emotions about seeing him again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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I had left my East Anglian home early the previous day with very mixed feelings.
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The ex-Eurythmics mastermind admitted very mixed emotions over his Honorary Fellowship of Sunderland's university.
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Today there is a very mixed bag of public relations workers and organisations.
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All in all these developments have had a very mixed reception.
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The electricity companies were almost universally ahead in a very mixed market.
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In all, a very mixed package of health care measures was evolving.
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The results were a very mixed bag, with some of them so gloomy they refused to be quoted.
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Women regard the family planning programmes as a very mixed blessing.
■ NOUN
ability
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The five classes are of mixed ability and each has up to eight children of similar age and/or developmental level.
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I am writing a textbook for mixed ability classes in comprehensive schools based on this model.
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Set on Corton Cliffs high above the beach, it's a lush meadowland course ideal for mixed ability groups.
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One dealt with the issue of mixed ability teaching as a separate issue.
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Classes for dancers of differing levels of technique have therefore been dispensed in favour of mixed ability sessions.
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This preparation eased the way for further integration of physically handicapped children into the mixed ability secondary school.
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One such requirement is the need for a mixed ability philosophy which actively encourages integration in all its forms.
bag
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The 17 exhibitors at the fair had bought a mixed bag of drawings, spanning centuries and price ranges.
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But beer-drinkers are a mixed bag these days, and so is the stuff they drink.
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Among this lot, the emotional trawl was a bit more of a mixed bag .
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Today there is a very mixed bag of public relations workers and organisations.
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So we have a mixed bag of destinations and holiday choices for you.
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The results were a very mixed bag , with some of them so gloomy they refused to be quoted.
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As for the current batch of fanzines, they are undeniably a mixed bag .
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The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment.
blessing
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The disintegration of the Takeshita faction was seen as a mixed blessing for Miyazawa.
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Even that has been a mixed blessing .
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For voluntary organisations the budget was more of a mixed blessing .
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The sheer pace of accumulation was itself a mixed blessing .
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Ultraviolet light is a mixed blessing as far as living things are concerned.
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Carmakers view this as a mixed blessing .
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Significant technological advances in underwater excavation and recovery are proving a mixed blessing in the field of marine archaeology.
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Pedagogically the need to be much clearer about what is being taught and why is a mixed blessing .
double
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There were four competitions: men's singles, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles.
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Because I must have been noticed, I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles .
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On Sunday play starts with the mixed doubles at 9am with the men's open singles starting at 10am.
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Among the guests, with girl-friend Babs Feltus, was some one who also knows about mixed doubles - Boris Becker.
economy
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The programme's emphasis on a mixed economy also met little resistance.
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The managed mixed economy and a highly developed system of collective social provision were the means for achieving these values.
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All the same, the 1988 results give Socialist defenders of the mixed economy new ammunition to fire at would-be privatisers.
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What he actually offered was a vigorous defence of the mixed economy with a passing assault on Treasury investment rules.
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The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus.
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These programmes were founded on a comprehensive Welfare State system complemented by the demand management of an expanding mixed economy .
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But the idea of the mixed economy was hardly less grandiose.
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The Griffiths proposals were based on the further development of a mixed economy of welfare.
emotion
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The ex-Eurythmics mastermind admitted very mixed emotions over his Honorary Fellowship of Sunderland's university.
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His memories of Sarah were as strong as ever, but he thought of her with mixed emotions .
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She needed space and time to think, time to sort out this mess of mixed emotions .
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After the official closure it was with mixed emotions that we took our leave of Wadeville.
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It was a day of mixed emotions for a player who came up through the ranks at Ayresome Park.
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Recording with the Attax produced mixed emotions too.
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The loss of parents brings with it a whole range of mixed emotions .
fortune
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The teams in first and second place in the table, Oxton and Chester Boughton Hall, enjoyed mixed fortunes .
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Figures show how much we've grown 1992 was a year of mixed fortunes for the Food and Agriculture Division.
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In fact the war years were a period of mixed fortunes for cotton manufacture.
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Nothing else can explain his attitude to the young Greg LeMond, who had the mixed fortune of being his teammate.
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It was a day of mixed fortunes for husband and wife Price and Beth McConaghy.
group
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A mixed group of students would be catered for by placing greater emphasis on electives.
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This is another mixed group including both owner-occupiers and those who rent their homes with their business.
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They can be primary or special schools, mixed groups of teaching and outside agency staff.
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Speaking less than men in mixed groups . 6.
herb
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Baste occasionally during cooking. 3 Meanwhile, mix together the mustard, olive oil, cream and mixed herbs .
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Add the nuts, tomatoes, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, mixed herbs and chilli.
marriage
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The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages .
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There are many mixed marriages , and war has only strengthened friendships.
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Nehemiah's law against mixed marriages was paralleled in Athens by Pericles' legislation against foreign wives.
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Like the mixed marriages that were general here.
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The penal laws in force at the time, however, made mixed marriages difficult, if not impossible.
media
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Markers lend themselves in particular to mixed media sketching and to mixed media artwork for reproduction in print.
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Sally uses mixed media and is still experimenting with other materials.
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Josef Heman, Miner in a Landscape, 1952, mixed media .
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The result is a strong and challenging exhibition in which mixed media work predominates.
message
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As the next section shows, the skilful use of mixed messages leads to a range of unintended and counter-productive consequences.
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The division managers must find ways to explain the existence of mixed messages to themselves and to their subordinates.
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If discussing mixed messages would be embarrassing, then publicly testing for the validity of these explanations would be even more so.
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Producing mixed messages , we have seen, requires highly honed skills.
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The mixed messages , in turn, produce unintended, counter-productive consequences that create the incompetence.
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When individuals communicate mixed messages , they usually do it spontaneously and with no sign that the message is mixed.
race
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The murder suspect is described as of black or mixed race in his early 20s.
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Elsewhere, people of mixed race lost their monopoly of the middling-rank jobs, as they found themselves jostled from below.
reaction
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The seventeenth edition met with mixed reactions .
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As its image as an independent search for truth has changed, scientists have had mixed reactions .
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Reactions to training Our evidence suggested that there had been a mixed reaction to the take-up of material designed specifically for boards.
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The proposal has upset residents living near the base, and met with a mixed reaction from the travellers themselves.
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There was a mixed reaction to the creation of the new states.
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There were mixed reactions to the strike.
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There has been a mixed reaction to the appointment.
reception
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Cuisine 2000 itself, meanwhile, was enjoying a somewhat mixed reception .
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Crawford's performance also met with a mixed reception .
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Orfeo had a mixed reception , with predictable hostility on the part of Mazarin's enemies.
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All in all these developments have had a very mixed reception .
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But Penrhyn's success has met a mixed reception .
response
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When asked how beneficial the training had been there was a somewhat mixed response .
result
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These mixed results suggest that short selling restrictions are not the main cause of mispricings.
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The Western powers' recourse to warships yielded mixed results .
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Such studies have yielded mixed results .
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A selection of case studies was reported, illustrating the mixed results that emerge from apparently similar projects.
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A similar mixed result had attended the efforts of earlier canal engineers.
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Investigation of these predictions has yielded mixed results .
salad
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Or Seafood Salad - a delicious combination of prawns, smoked salmon and crab pieces on a bed of mixed salad.
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Packs of sprouting beans are readily available and make a refreshing addition to mixed salads .
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Anders was there, supposedly supervising the preparation of an assortment of mixed salads for the buffet.
school
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Brisbane State High was a mixed school , and it wasn't only the girls who found Eva Burrows good company.
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Thus all members of a simple random sample of 30 pupils from a mixed school could be girls.
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She taught in a racially mixed school and was at pains to correct simple stereotypes and unthinking prejudices.
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But I am old-fashioned enough to dislike hearing it flung about in railway carriages by mixed school parties.
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To his great credit, my father never mixed school and home.
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Unfortunately, in the past girls' schools did not provide the same curriculum options as boys' schools or mixed schools.
success
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It is no coincidence that in the current recession, the big boys have been active again, though with mixed success .
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I have tried buying second-hand machines at auction with some mixed success .
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She adapted many of her novels, including the first, for the stage, with mixed success .
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The innovation brought only mixed success , and the small telescope has now fallen into disrepair.
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We don't have a spray shop here and we have had mixed success with using a local spray finisher.
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There was mixed success however, for a similar reintroduction project for red kites.
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Members of the high aristocracy took turns to rule Normandy, with mixed success .
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I've also enjoyed watching furniture students progress with mixed success from college to those ranks of recognised craftspeople.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mixed blessing
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Staying at home with the baby has been something of a mixed blessing for Pam.
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The color printer is a mixed blessing - it looks good, but it takes a long time to print.
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But the passenger pigeon, as we now know this bird, was a mixed blessing for the Pilgrims.
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Even that has been a mixed blessing .
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For voluntary organisations the budget was more of a mixed blessing .
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My celebrity was a mixed blessing .
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Such a prestigious credit was something of a mixed blessing .
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Switching to College Prep was a mixed blessing .
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The disintegration of the Takeshita faction was seen as a mixed blessing for Miyazawa.
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The sheer pace of accumulation was itself a mixed blessing .
be inextricably linked/bound up/mixed etc
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For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
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In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
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It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
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Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
be/get mixed up in sth
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A straight-laced Wall Street banker gets mixed up in one ludicrous misunderstanding after another in George Gallo's screwball comedy.
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Everything else about this journey is starting to get mixed up in my head.
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He defended me and Eddie when we got mixed up in a couple of scrapes.
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He had to be mixed up in the Cicero Club.
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Her son's got mixed up in it, probably demonstrated yesterday with the Socialists outside the Town Hall.
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I still do not want to get mixed up in any Indochina decision....
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It was nothing to do with her, and whatever it was she didn't want to be mixed up in it.
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We weren't going to get mixed up in a job, when we were going home off duty.
be/get mixed up with sb
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Answer: She would never have got mixed up with him in the first place.
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But this all gets mixed up with motivation too: the horse must be motivated to learn.
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I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month.
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It's an odd business and it seems to be mixed up with Edwin Garland's will.
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Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last.
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Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.
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Trust Auguste to get mixed up with it.
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We used to get mixed up with the fight.
mixed metaphor
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I have mixed metaphors for all occasions.
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Instances are quoted of highly contrived antithesis, of mixed metaphor and elaborate circumlocution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a mixed -race family
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a salad of mixed greens
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After beating the cake mixture, add a handful of mixed nuts.
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Brisbane High was a mixed school so we had plenty to distract us from our lessons.
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Many new step-parents will admit to having mixed emotions about their new family.
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One hall of residence is for men, one is for women and the third is mixed .
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Reactions to the announcement were somewhat mixed .
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The other girls had mixed feelings, some of them were happy for me but some were jealous.
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The show draws a mixed audience of children and adults.
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This is a very mixed neighborhood, both racially and socially.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A geezer down in Catford once mixed smack with flour.
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Also, would you recommend traditional or reverse-flow undergravel filtration for a mixed set-up?
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Beat in the mixed dried fruit and milk and turn into the prepared can.
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But the College says it's now as a mixed college the Somerville can best function and encourage academic excellence in women.
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If the New Deal is judged by its economic success alone, then the verdict must be a mixed one.
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Place a plastic bag in your pot and fill with ready mixed cement.
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The mixed honours degrees mentioned below specifically cater for the non-vocational law student.