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a dog's breakfast

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a dog's breakfast/dinner  (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.
See also: breakfast


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So if you have ever asked yourself what the apparent marriage of Modernist architecture and 'Kantian' modern art was all about, you will find no answers here: this is a disciplined book about specific events in art history, marred by some lazy aspects which are no credit to CUP, who have made a dog's breakfast of some German and Russian words, and provided an inadequate index.
interests on the island when he took office, Wood said he ``wound up in a mess less appetizing than a dog's breakfast.
``Independence Day'' is a dog's breakfast of movie homages.
 
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