kick bollocks scramble

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Noun

kick bollocks scramble (plural kick bollocks scrambles)

1. (idiomatic, slang, British) A free for all or panic situation.

   As the project came to an end, it was all a bit of a kick bollocks scramble.

   • 2013, David Hesmondhalgh, Sarah Baker, Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries, page 99:

     So it's a kick bollocks scramble to try and get funding in place, to get all the contracts, to get everything agreed.