dog's dinner

noun
/dɒɡz ˈdɪnə/UK

Definitions

  1. A complete mess.

    • to make a dog's dinner (of)
    • The Polizei had made a dog's dinner of this. Vera would have done better, no doubt of it. It now remained to be seen whether the Law would do better.
    • She must look like a real dog's dinner. No wonder he'd been looking over her head to the girl who took the coats.

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