• to toss about, to tumble
• to talk through one's hat
• he talks bilge, to gibber, to haver, to piffle, to splutter, to talk through one's hat
• to blather, to blether, to maunder
• to turn sg over and over
• to scrounge around for sg
• everything went criss-cross from the start
• clutter, confusion, criss-cross, disarray, hodge-podge, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, huddle, jumble, mess, muss, pell-mell, promiscuity, shambles, tangle, upturn