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How to use at sixes and sevens in a sentence

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Employers are at sixes and sevens and, sadly, parents have no idea of what is going on.
If we were left at sixes and sevens, our effectiveness as an association would have been seriously damaged.
Residents in a Bury street have been left at sixes and sevens after a house numbers mix-up.
The students played as if they had been a little too festive over the break and were at sixes and sevens for most of the match.
I'm at sixes and sevens on the issue of who is really at fault here.
Cardarelli took the man-of-the-match award but it was assistant coach Gallant who had London at sixes and sevens all night, brilliant both offensively and defensively.
In the meantime, producers in countries like Canada, accustomed to a ready market in the British Isles, find themselves at sixes and sevens.
Ministers were at sixes and sevens over the Stability Pact, having failed to issue early warnings to Germany and Portugal.
Without them we were at sixes and sevens and chasing the game.
With the French defenders at sixes and sevens, Nigerian striker Macauley Chrisantus pounced to snaffle the rebound after goalkeeper Joris Delle had blocked the initial goalbound effort.
All you will see is a girl you once knew, although she's dressed up to the nines, at sixes and sevens with you.
Oh, what a racket! And everything on deck apparently at sixes and sevens. Mail-bags and passengers mixed up in every direction.
On several occasions, the dribbling skills of the effervescent Alexander Ludwig had the Korean defence at sixes and sevens, but the Europeans failed to convert this pressure into goals.
Her outlook on life was so different from what he conceived a woman's outlook should be, that he was more often than not at sixes and sevens with her.
Examples from Classical Literature
Well, whatever you do, if he's a lazy good-for-nought, everything'll be at sixes and sevens.
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