couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery

English[edit]

Presents an example of a minimally simple project that the person or group described is presumed unable to accomplish.

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang, idiomatic) Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent.
- 2006, G. C. Lemans, Chantier: A tribute to the world's engineers and their partners in life‎^[1], page 60:
  “Deladrieux should have stayed an accountant,” Murphy sighed. “He's got three people working for him but they're just administrative clerks, pencil-pushers, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. That's what you get when you assign engineering jobs to non-engineers. […] ”