Meaning of couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery | Babel Free

Definitions

Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent; used to describe someone as greatly incompetent.

Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, idiomatic, slang, vulgar

Examples

““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.[…]””

“'It'll be a sad day when the British leave. You lot couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery without the Queen, God bless her'.”

“But, a tip for everyone reading this, don't use Visa Machine, as it couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery! And I should know, as I have had three breweries and I can!”

CEFR level