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make a shambles of
vs
tousle
make a shambles of
tousle
noun
The action of ruffling or setting in disorder.
verb
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
How often have the words
make a shambles of
and
tousle
occurred in a corpus of books?
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