dog's breakfast

English

Noun

dog's breakfast (plural dog's breakfasts)

1. (UK, Australian and Canada, idiomatic) An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.
   • 1961, "Black Temper," Time, 7 Jul.:

     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, David Usborne, "The Gene Genie gets an LA makeover," The Independent (UK), 18 May (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.

Synonyms

• hodgepodge, pig's ear, dog's dinner

References

• dog's breakfast at OneLook Dictionary Search