shemozzle

• “This effort produced what can only be described as a "shemozzle": horses, waggons, and men piled themselves up in a hopeless tangle at the bottom of the wadi, and the night operations came to an abrupt end.”

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• “Mr Mulder said that because the system was such a "shemozzle", Kamco had no hope of detecting everyone who had been either ripped off or had benefited from the glitches.”

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• “Even in these distant days of London 2012 it is starting to sound like just another sporting industry that doesn't know when to stop talking – as witnessed by this week's stage-managed shemozzle over which sporting celebrity will get to light the Olympic flame in Stratford.”

  The Guardian: Torching the myth of Sir Steve Redgrave's Olympic supremacy | Barney Ronay

• “Lager has already stained his path, a thirst that is a matter of public record: during the nightclub shemozzle that reached the courts last year it emerged that Carroll had drunk "eight or nine pints of lager" at the time of the incident.”

  The Guardian: England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay

• “Like any fan he has watched with dismay the ongoing boardroom shemozzle.”

  The Guardian: Dietmar Hamann aims for the top again – with or without MK Dons

• “Bataille was a man who, in his novel Story of the Eye, had imagined scenes with bull testicles, pissing, the whole shemozzle.”

  The Guardian: Paris, home of the avant-garde

• “As such there is a banality now to his presence with England, a quality that remains undimmed by choruses of player support and even by the resurfacing of the captaincy shemozzle – a wrestle for the armband that has been compared to a group of bald men fighting over a comb, although this does seem a little unfair on combs, which are useful things.”

  The Guardian: Latest episode of mad men will resume after Fabio Capello interlude

• “Some kind of player plus cash shemozzle involving Ji-Sung Park could be in the offing.”

  The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Liverpool's Fernando Torres to stay or go?

• “But which in the current climate instead looks like a rather tedious formality backed up by a managerial-form-wobble-Ray-Wilkins-ousting shemozzle.”

  The Guardian: Chelsea v MSK Zilina - as it happened

• “The shemozzle in the centre looked very messy, but with the alternate move system with the routs done in the other side's turn it just sorted itself out remarkably well.”

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