Meaning of dog's breakfast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, breakfast.

Examples

“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."”

“Critics here are reserving judgement on whether ABC will do "Life in Mars" justice or make⟳ a dog's breakfast of it.”

“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.”

“And the next morning she got up to fix⟳ breakfast: the old lady had told her, she had to fix⟳ her breakfast, the old lady's breakfast, the cat's breakfast, the dog's breakfast, and the bull's breakfast.”

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