Mix Sb/Sth Meaning Things Forget Synonym Confuse Twin

Meaning: If you mix up two or more things, you forget which one is which.

• mix sb/sth up The twin boys look so much alike that it's really easy to mix them up.
  
  
• mix up sb/sth I mixed up the dates and went to the restaurant on Friday instead of Saturday - and nobody else was there!
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with mix up (1): names, dates, days, numbers