AT SIXES AND SEVENS

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AT SIXES AND SEVENS

Definition: AT SIXES AND SEVENS

AT SIXES AND SEVENS

1. To be in disorder. --Bacon. Shak. Swift.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: AT SIXES AND SEVENS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.
Disorder	Adverb: irregularly; Adjective: by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: AT SIXES AND SEVENS

Specialty definitions using "AT SIXES AND SEVENS": Boheme. (references)

Expressions: AT SIXES AND SEVENS

Expressions using "AT SIXES AND SEVENS": be at sixes and sevens over smth. ♦ to be at sixes and sevens. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: AT SIXES AND SEVENS

Language		Translations for "AT SIXES AND SEVENS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		být z èeho janek (be at sixes and sevens over smth.). (various references)

Hungarian		minden szerteszéjjel van (everything is at sixes and sevens), minden szanaszét van (everything is at sixes and sevens), minden (all, all the, altogether, beyond belief, each, every, every one, everybody, everything, everything is at sixes and sevens, knowing card, max, odd hand, shirt-sleeve, to all appearances, to consider all angles of the question, to examine a question in all its bearings, to shake all over, to study every aspect of a question), összeférhetetlen egymással (everything is at sixes and sevens). (various references)

Pig Latin		atay ixessay anday evenssay

Romanian		claie peste grãmadã. (various references)

Turkish		allak bullak (all mixed up, confused, confusedly, pell mell, pellmell, snafu, topsyturvy), karmakarışık (all in a tumble, all mixed up, chaotic, confused, disheveled, dishevelled, embroiled, haywire, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly burly, in complete disorder, intricate, mess, messy, mussy, out of order, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, snafu), şaşkınlık içinde (in a daze). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: AT SIXES AND SEVENS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-i-n-n-s-s-s-s-t-v-x"
	-4 letters: nativenesses, steadinesses.
	-5 letters: naivenesses, nastinesses, sandinesses, snidenesses, staidnesses.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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