Richard Schiff

I love my wife... but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

American Actor

Zoe Ball

My best characteristic is that I don't take things too seriously. And my worst characteristic is the same one. There are times when my family wants me to take things seriously and I'll be mucking about. So I'm aware it's annoying for everyone else.

Bryce Dallas Howard

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

American Actress

Chantal Sutherland

I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage.

Canadian Athlete

Liv Hewson

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

Australian Actor

Wilfried Zaha

I am a normal guy. I muck about; I play around with my nieces. The only thing is I need to be professional when I am out and conduct myself in a certain way. I still live a normal lifestyle.

Athlete

Lindsay Wagner

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Sara Cox

The farm life, the space, the muck, I absolutely loved it - it was like having your own kingdom.

English Entertainer

Norman Wisdom

I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.

English Comedian

Leonid I. Brezhnev

Russian Statesman

The term often describes areas left dirty after an event with many people.

Physical mess

'Muck' suggests unpleasantness or something that should be removed.

Negative Connotation

'Muck' can be used to describe a situation that is chaotic or troublesome.

Figurative Use

As a verb, it often involves thorough cleaning of a large or dirty area.

Cleaning action

In farming contexts, 'muck out' is a routine part of animal care.

Regular Task

'Muck' as fertilizer is beneficial for farming and gardening.

Agricultural Use

Muck improves the soil by adding nutrients necessary for plant growth.

Adding Nutrients

Using 'muck up' in casual speech implies making a significant mistake.

Informal

'Muck up' is too informal for professional or academic writing.

Avoid in Formal

Saying someone 'mucked up' can imply careless or thoughtless behavior.

Social Context

 the first season I wanted to spread the word I wanted to big it up we haven't got time to muck about guys also I don't want it to be a formatted show and go back to the next most unhealthy town in America no not at all so we went to LA and you know let's just put it in perspective California I've come here for a strategic reason okay

Launching a Food...

 It's children's delight, a teacher's envy, as they say. You're not able to see how the sound is produced, because the thing which is vibrating goes inside my mouth. I'm going to keep this outside, to blow out. I'm going to suck in air. So no one actually needs to muck up the production of sound

Turning trash into toys...

 they just need time to get to know each other and just to muck around this has already been just about the most exciting two minutes of my life look at that they are magnificent I don't want to chase them it's very important that I don't go into their space I let them

Amazing Orca Dolphins...

 detritus all over the place it looks like the you know the male's clearly aren't doing anything to help clear up she's got to do all the work and basically she just let it all go and so it's not nearly as symmetrical and there's always muck about it and the web

Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...

 Let me address some questions about progress that no doubt have occurred to many of you. First, isn't it good to be pessimistic to safeguard against complacency, to rake the muck, to speak truth to power? Well, not exactly. It's good to be accurate.

Is the world getting...

 pondered the cosmos from their armchairs. They were not mucking around in the fossil pits or conducting messy experiments with electrical piles like the members of the British Association. The crowd grew angry and began to complain loudly.

Laura Snyder: The...

 they just need time to get to know each other and just to muck around this has already been just about the most exciting two minutes of my life look at that they are magnificent i don't want to chase them it's very

Deadly Killer Whale...

 as for most animals that play the activity strengthens physical abilities runs important survival skills and is really really good fun mucking about in the murky depths all day leave an auto rather filthy so they

Sophisticated Mountain...

 digging into the muck and even using her trunk as a snorkel to breathe while submerged. The pair of matriarchs look contentedly on their herds, before turning their trunks to the horizon once more.

The incredible,...

 not "You're beautiful." Oh, and character was built by doing chores. When I wasn't mucking out the goat barn, I was shearing sheep, changing tires, scrubbing toilets, volunteering, shoveling snow.

Muck

Physical mess

Negative Connotation

Figurative Use

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