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mix someone up

to confuse someone. Please don't ask questions now; you'll mix me up! You mixed up the speaker with your question.

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mix something up

to bring something into disorder; to throw something into a state of confusion. Don't mix up the papers on my desk. He mixes up things in his eagerness to speak.

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mix something up (with something)

1. to mix or stir something using a mixing or stirring device. He mixed the batter up with a spoon. First, mix up the batter.

2. to combine substances and mix them together. Please mix the egg up with the sugar first. Please mix up the egg with the sugar.

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mix something up also mix up something

to put something in the wrong order or place If you mix the photos up in these envelopes I'll never find them.

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mix up somebody/something also mix somebody/something up

to confuse one person or thing with another Mrs. Albert was always mixing up the two boys even though they didn't look very much alike. I mixed the appointment up and went for a haircut on the wrong day.

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? References in classic literature
Though it was hard work to look after all the children and restrain their wild pranks, though it was difficult too to keep in one's head and not mix up all the stockings, little breeches, and shoes for the different legs, and to undo and to do up again all the tapes and buttons, Darya Alexandrovna, who had always liked bathing herself, and believed it to be very good for the children, enjoyed nothing so much as bathing with all the children. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context "There is a great deal of truth in what you say, niece," returned Don Quixote, "and I could tell you somewhat about birth that would astonish you; but, not to mix up things human and divine, I refrain. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context I don't know how to talk properly, but I should be worse even than I am, if I had not had to mix up with a lot of men in the City who had been properly educated. A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context More results

? References in classic literature

Though it was hard work to look after all the children and restrain their wild pranks, though it was difficult too to keep in one's head and not mix up all the stockings, little breeches, and shoes for the different legs, and to undo and to do up again all the tapes and buttons, Darya Alexandrovna, who had always liked bathing herself, and believed it to be very good for the children, enjoyed nothing so much as bathing with all the children.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

"There is a great deal of truth in what you say, niece," returned Don Quixote, "and I could tell you somewhat about birth that would astonish you; but, not to mix up things human and divine, I refrain.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

I don't know how to talk properly, but I should be worse even than I am, if I had not had to mix up with a lot of men in the City who had been properly educated.

A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

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