balled up

*(all) balled up

troubled; confused; in a mess. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) John is all balled up because his car was stolen.

mod. confused; mixed up. (This is hyphenated before a nominal.) That dame is so balled up she doesn’t know anything.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Artaxerxes	-	Ancient Persian (Hellenized), History, Biblical
Kunala	-	Sanskrit
Luigi	LWEE-jee	Italian
Pyrrhus	PIR-əs (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Tomo	-	Croatian
Rosangela	ro-zahn-JE-lah	Italian