mixed up in something—(of people) involved in or linked with smth., especially smth. reprehensible:
- Robert Mendelson, whose name was also mixed up in the scandal, has not been mentioned in the ruling.
mixed up with something—
1. blended or interspersed with smth.:
- Its composition varies according to the various ingredients which may be mixed up with it.
2. combined or associated with smth.:
- There is no reason why every adventure story should necessarily be mixed up with snobbishness and gutter patriotism.
3. = mixed up in something:
- No political party makes the slightest reference to it, all parties apparently being too much mixed up with the scandal.
4. confused with smth.; mistakenly identified with smth.:
- His hospital chart was mixed up with that of another patient with a similar name.