make a hash of

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Also, make a mess of . Ruin or spoil something, as in They've made a hash of their financial affairs , or She thought he'd make a mess of the garden . The first term, first recorded in 1833, uses hash in the sense of “a jumble of mangled fragments”; the variant, using mess in the sense of “a muddle” or “a state of confusion,” was first recorded in 1862.

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