Maybe people wouldn't fight as much if they knew they'd have to clean up the awful mess.

"We will get through it, but at the moment, it's an awful mess and very frustrating for our patients."

I've tried once to help things along and made an awful mess of it.

Telling them how to get out of it without leaving an awful mess behind is much harder.

He had been alone in this awful mess for such a long time.

Somebody came into the kitchen after I left, moved the body, and cleaned up that awful mess.

A couple came in here from the city last week and made an awful mess.

I wouldn't take the job seriously, and the world would get into an awful mess.

He's going to get himself in an awful mess if he isn't careful.

"It's nice to know that something good will come out of this awful mess."