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Significados de higgledy-piggledy em inglês

In utter disorder.

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        A disorderly default would result in substantially higher losses for the system.
        Reuters
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        Photo: RNZ A police spokesperson said the arrests were for disorderly behaviour.
        Radio NZ
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        The discordant vocalising of the drunk and disorderly in the next cell.
        A Damsel in Distress
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        He pleaded guilty to a reduced disorderly conduct charge in that case.
        Reuters
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        One person was arrested at Auckland Domain yesterday morning for disorderly behaviour.
        Radio NZ
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        However, the rise of Earl Sliney as the possible shooter jumbled things.
        Raging Heat
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        We'll camp here.' He indicated the jumbled rocks by the river bank.
        Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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        The bones were jumbled together, the result of continual tremors and eruptions.
        Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
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        She was feeling so many emotions jumbled together: happiness, surprise, curiosity, confusion.
        Sweet Little Lies
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        Routes that have ledges or jumbled features, or wander, are good candidates.
        Climbing Magazine
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        We have to eat all hugger-mugger with the clerks and carpenters.
        Sovereign
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        I don't want to hear any more about corporate hugger-mugger.
        The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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        The various departments are said to be in a state of "hugger-mugger."
        The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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        As they thought, hid in hugger-mugger, each accusing the other of being a racist.
        Kalooki Nights
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        Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money.
        North America — Volume 1
        1
        In half an hour he had caught up with the topsy-turvy caravan.
        Pinocchio in Africa
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        The camel is a topsy-turvy ship and the ostrich a topsy-turvy bird.
        Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children
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        Much had been made of the topsy-turvy nature of the much-hyped contest.
        Radio NZ
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        For awhile it seemed to me that the whole world was topsy-turvy.
        The Story of Dago
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        But all shame is extinct in France, and everything is turned topsy-turvy.
        Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...
        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.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...