in a heap

in a heap

In a pile, usually a messy or disorganized one. The phrase can also be applied to someone who has fallen heavily and/or clumsily. Why are all of your clothes in a heap out in the hallway? Clean this mess up! Katrina slipped and landed in a heap at the bottom of the steps.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

in a heap

mod. alcohol intoxicated. The guys were all in a heap after the blast.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • like a dog's dinner
  • like a dog's breakfast
  • be at sixes and sevens
  • a dog's dinner
  • pile into
  • pile into (something)
  • at sixes and sevens
  • 6s
  • 7s
  • hurrah's nest
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A number of archaeologists welcome the McCaffertys' reappraisal of Tomb 7, although they offer different theories of how it was used and whose bones lay in a heap on its floor.
Temple of the ascending Goddess: a female deity's status is enhanced in a pre-Columbian tomb