Faced with a filthy task no one wanted, Mary shrugged and quoted, "where there's muck there's brass," because she knew the pay would be good.

At the charity gala, the high muckety-mucks exchanged polite smiles while planning the city's redevelopment.

Even the janitor feels nervous when the high muckety-muck walks through the plant.

She admitted that she had been mucking up the schedule and promised to fix it.

He always mucks up the final draft by adding unnecessary changes at the last minute.

Every morning he de-mucks the garden pond so the koi can swim freely.

The crew spent the afternoon de-mucking the barn after the storm.

The mucky-mucks arrived late to the meeting, expecting everyone else to wait.

Despite the deadline, he was mucking about with the broken prototype instead of fixing the main issue.

He mucks about with the old radio until it finally works.