Idiom
dog's breakfast
Meaning
An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The report was a total dog's breakfast.”
“The team tried to fix the software, but they ended up making a dog's breakfast of the entire project.”
“Despite his best intentions to organize the archives, the resulting filing system was nothing more than a dog's breakfast of misplaced documents and broken folders.”
Examples
simple
“The report was a total dog's breakfast.”
contextual
“The team tried to fix the software, but they ended up making a dog's breakfast of the entire project.”
complex
“Despite his best intentions to organize the archives, the resulting filing system was nothing more than a dog's breakfast of misplaced documents and broken folders.”
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