"make a hash of" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a hash of"
      },
      "expansion": "make a hash of (third-person singular simple present makes a hash of, present participle making a hash of, simple past and past participle made a hash of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I generally make a hash of talking to boys I like; it's so frustrating.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Pouring drinks is one thing I always make a hash of, so please help yourselves.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "First, you’ve made a hash of this cruise — you’ll be a bold man to say no to that. Second, you let the enemy out o’ this here trap for nothing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 December 26, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:",
          "text": "City's victory was secured in first-half injury time when Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet made a hash of his attempt to keep out Alvaro Negredo's chip, ensuring Manuel Pellegrini's side kept their flawless home league record.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to do badly, particularly to make a mess while doing."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_a_hash_of-en-verb-nNITHCeW",
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
        ],
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "mess",
          "mess"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mess up"
        },
        {
          "word": "muck up"
        },
        {
          "word": "stuff up"
        },
        {
          "word": "make a mess of"
        },
        {
          "word": "make a Horlicks of"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "screw up"
        },
        {
          "word": "cock up"
        },
        {
          "word": "fuck up"
        },
        {
          "word": "balls up"
        },
        {
          "word": "bugger up"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a hash of"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a hash of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a hash of"
      },
      "expansion": "make a hash of (third-person singular simple present makes a hash of, present participle making a hash of, simple past and past participle made a hash of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I generally make a hash of talking to boys I like; it's so frustrating.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Pouring drinks is one thing I always make a hash of, so please help yourselves.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "First, you’ve made a hash of this cruise — you’ll be a bold man to say no to that. Second, you let the enemy out o’ this here trap for nothing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 December 26, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:",
          "text": "City's victory was secured in first-half injury time when Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet made a hash of his attempt to keep out Alvaro Negredo's chip, ensuring Manuel Pellegrini's side kept their flawless home league record.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to do badly, particularly to make a mess while doing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
        ],
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "mess",
          "mess"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mess up"
    },
    {
      "word": "muck up"
    },
    {
      "word": "stuff up"
    },
    {
      "word": "make a mess of"
    },
    {
      "word": "make a Horlicks of"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "screw up"
    },
    {
      "word": "cock up"
    },
    {
      "word": "fuck up"
    },
    {
      "word": "balls up"
    },
    {
      "word": "bugger up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a hash of"
}