total confusion

collocation in English

meaningsoftotalandconfusion

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total
adjective
uk
/ˈtəʊ.təl/us
/ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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confusion
noun
uk
/kənˈfjuː.ʒən/us
/kənˈfjuː.ʒən/
a situation in which people do not understand what is happening, what they should do or who someone or ...
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(Definition oftotalandconfusionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftotal confusion

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However, when the leaders spoke, there wastotalconfusionof line and action.
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Less than two years on, the marginalisation of prominent figures developed into a pattern, reaching a point wheretotalconfusionseemed to dominate party affairs in mid-2002.
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But this makes fortotalconfusion.
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The crisis management fund does not need additional resources, but it does need to be outside the operational programmes, otherwise there will betotalconfusion.
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I suppose that is out of embarrassment either fromtotalconfusionor from a failure to understand the mechanism of savings in an economy.
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On this subject we seem to be in a situation oftotalconfusion.
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As it is, there istotalconfusionabout whether we have a real increase or not.
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The law clearly states that one can use reasonable force, but recent cases have resulted intotalconfusion.
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We are left intotalconfusionabout the duties of the company with regard to market discipline and the shareholders.
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They have gone up and down and in and out from social security offices to town halls in a state oftotalconfusion.
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We are now in a state of almosttotalconfusion.
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Secondly, there seems to be atotalconfusionabout the need for communication.
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It would result intotalconfusionto import the exercise of a discretion to proceed.
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I am not at all clear, except that there would betotalconfusion.
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That merely goes to show thetotalconfusionwhich can arise in what was, after all, a perfectly normal conversation on a doorstep.
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This seems to me to be atotalconfusionof thought.
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That will only add to thetotalconfusion.
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They will lead tototalconfusionin litigation.
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The indications are that there istotalconfusionamong local authorities.
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It istotalconfusion, and perhaps some regulation is now necessary.
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