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soup sandwich

idiom

Someone or something that is disorganized, incompetent, fundamentally flawed or unfinished.


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  1. 01

    air sandwich

    A strategy that has high-level direction and low-level operations, but little in the middle.

  2. 02

    bite of the reality sandwich

    A wake-up call, a reality check.

  3. 03

    duck soup

    Something which is easy; a piece of cake.

  4. 04

    indict a ham sandwich

    Of a grand jury: to charge a person with a crime, despite a perceived lack of evidence.

  5. 05

    Loop the loop

    [Cockney slang]soup

    Referring to a late 19th century act of daring where a performer strapped to a wheel whizzed round on a coiled track.

  6. 06

    shit sandwich

    Something highly undesirable that is rendered more acceptable or palatable by the addition of more tolerable or agreeable components.

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