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词汇 dog's breakfast
释义
Idiom
dog's breakfast
British & Australian, informal something that has been done very badly.
She tried to cut her hair and made a real dog's breakfast of it.You should have seen the ceiling after he'd finished painting it. It was a complete dog's breakfast.
dog's breakfast
noun an unmitigated mess AUSTRALIA, 1934
(redirected from dog's breakfast)

a dog's breakfast

A mess. I really need to clean out my closet—it's starting to look like a dog's breakfast in there.

a dog's dinner

Something that is very messy and/or disorganized. I really need to clean out my closet—it's starting to look like a dog's dinner in there.

a dog's breakfast

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a dog's dinner

BRITISH
If you call something a dog's breakfast or a dog's dinner, you mean that it is badly organized or very untidy. He labelled the Government's plans `a complete dog's breakfast'. Now she's having to watch as those whom she grew up with in politics are in Cabinet and making a dog's breakfast of it. The whole place was a bit of a dog's dinner, really.

a dog's dinner (or breakfast)

a poor piece of work; a mess. British informal
The image is of a dog's meal of jumbled-up scraps.
2000 Independent He was rightly sacked because he had made such a dog's dinner of an important job.

a dog’s ˈbreakfast/ˈdinner

(British English, informal) a very untidy piece of work; a mess: Don’t ask Julie to help you with the decorating — she made a complete dog’s breakfast of painting the kitchen!
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