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/Sounds like "mah" (as in "mark") + "RAH" (as in "rapper") + "nyah" (as in "Nyan")/

Meaning

A tangled mess that is hard to sort out, whether it is a pile of wires, a complicated financial situation, or a web of people and problems all knotted together. Used across Mexico and Central America for anything so entangled that finding a clear way out is genuinely difficult.

Examples

They created such a mess with the business accounts that nobody can make sense of it.

There is a tangle of cables behind the desk that nobody wants to deal with.

Regional synonyms

To bite off more than you can chew: taking on more commitments than you can actually handle, leaving you failing at everything at once.