higgledy-piggledy

• “This once "higgledy-piggledy" historic home in the Township of Morris, N.J., was given a more coherent layout by the current owners.”

  The Wall Street Journal: N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots

• “Turpin Real Estate Ms. Higgins said the additions that were tacked on over the years by previous owners made the house 'a little higgledy-piggledy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: N.J. Colonial With Farm Roots

• “At the York complex, manufacturing operations that used to be spread higgledy-piggledy around more than 20 buildings have been funneled into one main factory.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Harley, With Macho Intact, Tries to Court More Women

• “It is a classic Gehry structure, formed from undulating polished steel and tumbling blocks of brushed aluminium that reminds Berners-Lee, he tells me, of the higgledy-piggledy Italian village one of his relatives grew up in.”

  The Guardian: The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius

• “Your room is a little higgledy-piggledy and could use a bit of tailored neatness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: It

• “At the moment I have left the list higgledy-piggledy, like a jumble sale of books, as it appealed to me that way.”

  50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room

• “I mean to level the skyline, modernising the structure; it has a disorganised higgledy-piggledy feel at the moment—not surprising, as it has been rebuilt relentlessly during the last eight centuries.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “In the previous post I ran through the precedents of the story, but sticking all of those ideas together higgledy-piggledy would be a mess.”

  The Primordial Stew Of Imagination, Part 2 « The Graveyard

• “Back in the 1990s a friend, tired of the usual fan's attempts to bring about victory for Middlesbrough using the paraphernalia of lucky clothing and the like and, to be honest, during the higgledy-piggledy reign of Bryan Robson even Imelda Marcos would have exhausted her wardrobe in pursuit of something that would halt a post‑Christmas slump, determined on what appeared a foolproof scheme – a retrospectively effective charm.”

  The Guardian: The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson

• “A crowded convention center floor, clearly, is not place to display or look at art works, mixed higgledy-piggledy with thousands of others, all of wildly divergent quality which ranges from the schlockiest of schlock to the occasional surprising new discovery or the familiar masterpiece.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Clothier: At The 2011 Los Angeles Art Fair: Yisrael K Feldsott

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