Idiom
soup sandwich
Meaning
Someone or something that is disorganized, incompetent, fundamentally flawed or unfinished.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This project is a total soup sandwich.”
“The new office software is a complete soup sandwich, and nobody knows how to use it.”
“The entire logistics operation became a soup sandwich after the manager resigned without leaving any instructions for the team.”
Examples
simple
“This project is a total soup sandwich.”
contextual
“The new office software is a complete soup sandwich, and nobody knows how to use it.”
complex
“The entire logistics operation became a soup sandwich after the manager resigned without leaving any instructions for the team.”
Origin
An expression of military origin, soup sandwich evokes the image of soup being poured over bread. The term relies upon the inherent structural failure of such an arrangement to denote something poorly executed or otherwise lacking in basic competence.
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