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jumble together

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jumble someone or something together
to mix people or things together randomly into a hodgepodge. They just jumbled everything together and made a real mess. The army just jumbled everybody together, no matter what their skills and talents were.
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jumble something together

to assemble something clumsily and hastily. They just jumbled some holiday decorations together. It really wasn't very well done. I hope this airplane wasn't jumbled together as badly as this meal.
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I don't believe Tower Hamlets Borough Council in London do in fact separate the glass, paper, plastic, cardboard, metal and foil 'recyclables' they ask us to jumble together to fill the pink plastic sacks that are (bizarrely) available for our collection from the local one-stop shops (ask the man looking after the public-access internet terminals).
Only now, matters of exile, nationalism, journalistic ethics and terrorism jumble together awkwardly.
Passing over eccentricities such as the author's propensity for framework references which jumble together uncircumventable or merely distinguished names in theory and critical practice with a few of rather more dubious merit, this volume is a treat.
 
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