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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