dog's breakfast
Disorganized chaotic jumble
A dog's breakfast is a mess or botched job—something confused, disorganized, or badly done.
The phrase evokes the unappetizing jumble of scraps thrown together for a dog: The report was a dog's breakfast of contradictory data.
Chiefly British, with *dog's dinner* as a near-synonym carrying the same meaning.
- shamblesState of total disorder
- fiascoHumiliating public failure
- dog's dinnerBotched, messy outcome
- botchSpoil through incompetence
- debacleSudden, complete failure
pig's ear · chaos · hot mess · blunder · mishmash · balls-up · jumble · clutter · dumpster fire · disaster · cock-up · muddle · hodgepodge · misstep · pigsty · disarray · flop · screw-up
- disorderchaos, chaotic, disarray, mess, disordered
- messy situationsjunk drawer, rat's nest, pigsty, disaster zone, train wreck
dog's breakfastmasterpiece
Supreme artistic achievement
well-oiled machine · orderly · shipshape · tidy · organized
dog's breakfasttriumph
Resounding, celebrated victory
tour de force · gem · textbook example · crowning achievement · masterpiece
dogs, dogged, doggedly, breakfast, breakfasts, break, breaks, breaking, broken