muck the thing up("Exactly how he would muck the thing up and get us all landed in the jug, I cannot say, but he would find a way." (P.G. Wodehouse)ART Vancouver)
blow me down!(in the novel "The Adventures of Captain Hornblower" by C. S. Forester, the British naval officer Horatio Hornblower says "Blow me down, if that isn't the Acheron!" when he sees a French warship that he thought had been sunk Taras)
