dog's breakfast
Noun
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Noun
dog's breakfast
- (UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, idiomatic) An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.
- 1961 July 7, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872536,00.html Black Temper]," Time:
- So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog′s breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it."
- 2008 May 18, David Usborne, "The Gene Genie gets an LA makeover ↗," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 9 June 2008):
- Critics here are reserving judgement on whether ABC will do "Life in Mars" justice or make a dog′s breakfast of it.
- 2010, Kate Jennings, Bouleversé, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical/Selected Writings 1970-2010, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1dxfEjZbl_QC&pg=PA277&dq=%22dog%27s+breakfasts%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0QZBT5iTMOGuiQewlbXRBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dog%27s%20breakfasts%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 277 (Google preview)]:
- I′d trade one of their sublime sentences for the entire crop of sprawling, show-offy novels – dog′s breakfasts of facetiousness – that are currently the literary vogue.
- 1961 July 7, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872536,00.html Black Temper]," Time:
- hodgepodge, pig's ear, dog's dinner
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