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    • Mixing Idioms & Learning To Speak English Confidently ...
      • When we speak, our words get jumbled up. A malaphor, or mixed idiom, is the result of that mistake. It occurs when two idioms are mixed together and create a new phrase or saying. Most of the time, malaphors don’t make sense – but that’s okay. They’re not supposed to.
  1. For example, in American English slang, to “get mixed up with” someone means to become involved with them romantically or socially. In British English slang however, a “mix-up” can refer to a fight or altercation.

  2. To confuse a person or thing with someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "get" and "mixed up." I think he got the dates mixed up for our meeting. He should have been here an hour ago. Uh oh, I got the powdered sugar mixed up with the baking soda.

  3. be mixed up with/in something. idiom usually disapproving. Add to word list. to be connected with a bad or unpleasant person or thing: Please don't get mixed up with him. You'll regret it if you do. I knew someone who was mixed up in that corruption scandal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  4. mixed up. 1. Confused. I'm sorry I'm late, I must have gotten mixed up about the time for our meeting. 2. Of various substances, completely combined, typically by having been stirred together. Don't add the cream until the eggs and sugar are completely mixed up. 3. Jumbled or disorganized.

  5. To confuse a person or thing with someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "get" and "mixed up." I think he got the dates mixed up for our meeting. He should have been here an hour ago. Uh oh, I got the powdered sugar mixed up with the baking soda.

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  7. Nov 13, 2019 · mixed up (adj.), mix-up (n.) If you are mixed up about something, it means that you are confused. “Whenever we change the clocks for daylight savings time, I get mixed up and can’t figure out what time it is.” “I’m a little mixed up. Is our meeting on Thursday or Friday?”

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