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Significados de higgledy-piggledy em inglês

In utter disorder.

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Uso de higgledy-piggledy em inglês
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Yes, sir, the same day; and her things are lying about higgledy-piggledy.
The Gadfly
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They set off in a higgledy-piggledy fashion, each striking out for himself.
Maurice Guest
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They were pretty close, advancing higgledy-piggledy across the fields and firing.
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
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They are not so much arranged about one another as superposed and higgledy-piggledy.
First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life
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Fatima Shah, the butcher's wife, remembers closing the rose-print curtains of her higgledy-piggledy house.
The Guardian
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They stood higgledy-piggledy, one on top of another, and they were all very dusty.
Charmed Life
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These slept higgledy-piggledy on skins, with their dogs amongst them.
Pioneers in Canada
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They lay scattered higgledy-piggledy, whole handfuls of them, crooked and straight, brown and black.
The Path of Life
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Thick thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, head-over-heels, rough-and-tumble!
Washington Irving
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Thick, thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, heads-over-heels, rough-and-tumble!
The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaw...
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The doors of the sideboard stood wide with its contents scattered higgledy-piggledy on the carpet.
Okewood of the Secret Service
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Every five years we built a little bit, higgledy-piggledy.
The Irish Times
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Not that all the vast accumulation needs to be thrown pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy into the discard.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
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Only glimpses of a higgledy-piggledy of assorted wares were to be caught behind the panes.
Janice Day at Poketown
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The walls had a gap here, roughly choked up by a higgledy-piggledy heap of rubbish.
The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
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I am writing higgledy-piggledy, as I re-read your letter.
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