mix up
verb
- confuse
- phrasal mix, combine
Wiktionary
noun
- A mix, blend, or variety.
“Next time, let's ask a group with a different mix up.”
- A confusion or reversal.
“I refuse to send them any more money until they fix this mix up.”
verb
- To mix or blend thoroughly and completely.
“She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.”
- To combine thoroughly.
“All the smells of the food had mixed up together.”
- To prepare something from ingredients that are mixed.
“She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil.”
“The picture of their life that follows suggests in a few words a country kitchen—the sizzling of fish over the charcoal fire, fanned by the bellows to a hot flame, the mixing up of a Thasian sauce for the fish, the kneading of dough.”
- To confuse or reverse.
“I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map.”
“I always mix up Jack with Jake.”
- To become involved with, especially socially or romantically.
“He got mixed up with a bad crowd.”
“Then he got mixed up with an older woman.”
- To shuffle.
“mix up this Rubik's cube”