词汇 | bollixed up |
词源 | bollixed up. Messed up, mixed up, spoiled, thrown into con- fusion. The expression, only traced to the 1930s, is thought to derive from bollocks, testicles, which comes from the Old En- glish bealluc, meaning the same. |
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