bollix
- v make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- Bush may try to hold his Republicans in place and bollix antiwar Democrats by announcing a quick withdrawal of a brigade or two from Anbar and the north, but that will be politics .
- And while the majority leader has power over the schedule, the Senate's arcane rules give any individual Senator the power to bollix up the works.
- This gives us plenty of opportunity to overthink--or underthink--the problem, and this is where we start to bollix things up.