Friday Phrase: A Dog's Breakfast

[med_cat]

Today's phrase is brought to you by lindahoyland
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a dog's breakfast (idiom, UK informal)

something or someone that looks extremely untidy, or something that is very badly done

(Source: The Cambridge Dictionary)

Also, see The Hot Idioms Blog  for further explanation and a comic.

Comments

[lindahoyland]

Glad this was of interest to you.

[med_cat]

Absolutely! Thanks again ;) I shared it with my mom too.

[full_metal_ox]

Not to mention that dogs have no qualms about ingesting a single meal multiple times.

[med_cat]

Also true

[shipperslist]

In Finnish, that would be "a dog's vomit." The meaning is the same, though. :D

[med_cat]

I see ;)

[goblinesque]

Oh interesting, colloquially in the UK I've always heard "a dog's dinner" :)

[med_cat]

Variations on the theme, I suppose ;)