make hash of

Would functioning without an audience make hash of our self-image?

The most baldly subversive among them, Instagram personalities with mysterious or sometimes off-putting handles like Fecal Matter, Forbidden Knowledge and Genesisfawn, are turning to prosthetics, extreme makeup, props, bodysuits and digital effects to mask or make hash of commonly held notions of what it means to be human.

This version may make hash of the textures Bach imagined, but it reveals a lot of what is often hard to hear from a harpsichord.

I’ll be hanged if I’m going to let even a shark think he can try to make hash of me and get away with it.

If he had a stout soldier for client, Ulenspiegel would hide and show in the middle of the frame, instead of his face, a dishful of meat and bread, and say: “Battle will make hash of you; what will you give me for my prophecy, O soldier beloved of the big-mouthed sakers?”