phrase

• Worthless or in a mess.

  More example sentences

  • ‘the plan is spoilt. Everything is up to putty’
  • ‘The plan is spoilt. Everything's up to putty.’
  • ‘A Royal Commission had said that they were all "up to putty".’
  • ‘Before you know it, he's up to putty with the new school teacher.’
  • ‘"When your life is up to putty," sang Mira, "And you feel you can't go on, laugh!"’
  • ‘I'd been lying out there about a night and a day, my legs up to putty.’