Be associated with (someone unsuitable or unreliable)
‘he was mixed up with some rival gangsters’
‘Written in 1886, it suggests that there is a pan-European anarchist underground, which the protagonist gets mixed up with.’
‘He's one of those charming, funny Peter Pan types that everybody likes but nobody should get mixed up with romantically.’
‘Robert has finally moved on from that horrible teacher woman he was mixed up with.’
‘‘What you mean to say,’ she said angrily. ‘Is that you don't think I should get mixed up with all the fighting and should go and hide like a good little girl, is that it?’’
‘I was never interested in that, it's not something I ever desired for myself or ever wanted to get mixed up with.’
‘I knew then that these were not the people I wanted to get mixed up with.’
‘At the time I was mixed up with the wrong crew, and we were asked to be extras in this production.’
‘There was also the particular problem that, as well as many decent and well-intentioned people, we got mixed up with some thoroughly dodgy ones.’
‘So I thought about turning down the invitation, since I didn't want to get mixed up with this group with whose purpose I completely disagree.’
‘Are you hoping that she won't get mixed up with politics again?’
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