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Meanings of messy business in English

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Usage of messy business in English
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It's not so long ago that rugby discipline was a messy business.
The Irish Times
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Leaving sport is a messy business and rare are the perfect exits.
The Irish Times
3
It's a messy business, and Labour has been embarrassed in spectacular fashion.
The Irish Times
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It can be a messy business, putting toddlers to bed, she quipped.
News.com.au
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Democracy, when passions and principles are aroused, is a messy business.
Reuters
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Art teaching is a messy business so I don't dress up.
The Irish Times
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But killing off Libor will be a long and messy business.
Reuters
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In reality the lines are blurred, says Ben Jones Development is a messy business.
The Guardian
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The messy business in the subway happened four weeks later.
The drawing of the three
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There was no help for it; active service is a messy business at best.
With Our Army in Palestine
11
We can cut the information out of you, but it's a very messy business.
One of our Thursdays is missing
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None of that messy business of climbing out of Earth's gravity well on rockets.
The Long Earth
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The messy business of being a teenager is the very stuff of Howl's songwriting.
The Guardian
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Identity politics is a messy business in America.
Wired
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Holding a prisoner was always a messy business.
Embrace the darkness
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It was a messy business, but I got her in the closet and the door bolted.
Phoenix noir
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