in the mix

English

Prepositional phrase

in the mix

1. Included in a mixture or group.
   • 1985, James Oliver Newton Perkins, The Macroeconomic Mix in the Industrialized World, page 107:

     There might be no need to use variations in the mix to avoid excessive inflation at any given level of employment if some form of incomes policy were capable of exerting complete control over the general level of wage rates and other incomes.

2. (music) Acting as a deejay; mixing music
3. Enculturated to a subculture.

   Synonym: mixed up

   • 1998, Barbara Owen, In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison, page 8:

     Women can get caught in the mix through self-destructive behaviors such as drug use and fighting or damaging relationships that interfere with one's program or limit freedom through placement in restrictive housing or the addition of time to one's sentence.