mix up in

phrasal verb

mixed up in; mixing up in; mixes up in

: to cause (someone) to be involved in (a usually dangerous or improper activity or situation)

He got mixed up in a plan to destroy the government.

Examples of mix up in in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Beck is mixed up in a much larger criminal organization run by a guy named Quinn (Brian Tee) with whom Reacher shares a dark past. —Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025

In this holiday entry from Aardman's long-running stop-motion Shaun the Sheep franchise, little lamb Timmy gets mixed up in the farmer's preparations for the town's Christmas Eve festival. —EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024

Fresh off winning the first Super Bowl ring of his career, Rice was arrested after a car crash in Dallas and allegedly got mixed up in an incident with a photographer. —Ryan Morik, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024

Cars, tractors, horses and other figurines are mixed up in the clouds for her windswept outfit. —Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024

Sharon is knocked unconscious during this phase, and the rest hurry around the house looking for ingredients for an antidote which Jen wants to mix up in the sink. —Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

Perhaps there has been a mix up in translation or Minyang's marketing department is being a bit optimistic. —David Szondy, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2024

There were also some wackier books which saw the twins mixed up in murders and even supernatural events. —K.j. Yossman, Variety, 30 July 2024

And an amendment on data collection is mixed up in the bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the controversial statute that authorizes the National Security Agency, which expires later this month. —Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024