higgledy-piggledy

Instead of obsessing over the latest higgledy-piggledy, do something useful.

That could be due in part to Ötzi’s diet, says Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, who notes that the evolution of light skin in people in Europe was a “higgledy-piggledy process.”

We drove for hours on potholed roads past open sewers, shanty huts, yellow mustard fields and smoky brick kilns to reach the victim's higgledy-piggledy village, deep in the interior of Bihar, one of India's poorest states.

The conservative majority has repeatedly courted chaos, tossing out precedent higgledy-piggledy and leaving the country in a constant state of suspense over what the law is.

This means that when a German says a number over 100, the digits are not pronounced in a consecutive order: 345 is dreihundertfünfundvierzig, or three-hundred-five-and-forty, which lists the numbers in the higgledy-piggledy form 3-5-4.