Idiom
couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
Vulgar
Meaning
Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent; used to describe someone as greatly incompetent.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is useless and couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.”
“After the manager failed to book the venue and lost the guest list, everyone agreed he couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.”
“Our new social secretary forgot to order the food and the music, proving she couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.”
“Despite his impressive resume, his disastrous handling of the project proved he couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, leaving the entire team in chaos.”
Examples
simple
“He is useless and couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.”
contextual
“After the manager failed to book the venue and lost the guest list, everyone agreed he couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.”
“Our new social secretary forgot to order the food and the music, proving she couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.”
complex
“Despite his impressive resume, his disastrous handling of the project proved he couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, leaving the entire team in chaos.”
Origin
The expression suggests a level of incompetence so profound that it precludes the successful management of a gathering to consume alcohol within the very facility where that alcohol is manufactured. It functions as a standard for a minimally simple project that the subject is presumed unable to accomplish. The idiom is of 20th-century British origin, though the source records no specific date of coinage or named individual responsible for its first use.
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