dog's breakfast

Definitions

1. 1

   An unappealing mixture

   An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.

   • So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it."
   • Critics here are reserving judgement on whether ABC will do "Life in Mars" justice or make a dog's breakfast of it.
   • I'd trade one of their sublime sentences for the entire crop of sprawling, show-offy novels – dog′s breakfasts of facetiousness – that are currently the literary vogue.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, breakfast.

   • And the next morning she got up to fix breakfast: the old lady had told her, she had to fix her breakfast, the old lady's breakfast, the cat's breakfast, the dog's breakfast, and the bull's breakfast.

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