Meaning of dog's dinner | Babel Free

Definitions

A complete mess.

Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, slang

Examples

“to make⟳ a dog's dinner (of)”

“The Polizei had made a dog's dinner of this. Vera would have⟳ done better, no doubt⟳ of it. It now remained to be seen whether the Law would do better.”

“She must look⟳ like⟳ a real dog's dinner. No wonder⟳ he'd been looking over her head to the girl who took the coats.”

“Just think⟳; without that Mrs Pankhurst and her wrecking crew jumping under racehorses (phwooar!) and chaining themselves to railings (kinky!), these young women would be out getting an education and respecting their own⟳ sexuality, not getting themselves up like⟳ dog’s dinners and being the passive playthings of men.”

“The folio text is unevenly spaced (the compositor made a dog's dinner of setting the text), with three spaces closed up...”

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