dog's breakfast | Idiomator

Meaning: (UK,Ireland,Commonwealth,idiomatic)Anunappealingmixture; adisorderlysituation; amess.Synonyms:cat's breakfast,pig's breakfast,hodgepodge,pig's ear,dog's dinner;see alsoThesaurus:disorder,Thesaurus:hodgepodge1961July 7, “Black Temper”, inTime‎[1], archived fromthe originalon3 February 2012:So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "Adog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it."2008May 18, David Usborne, “The Gene Genie gets an LA makeover”, inThe Independent‎[2], retrieved9 June 2008:Critics here are reserving judgement on whether ABC will do "Life in Mars" justice or make adog's breakfastof it.2010,Kate Jennings, “Bouleversé”, inTrouble: Evolution of a Radical/Selected Writings 1970–2010,page277:I'd trade one of their sublime sentences for the entire crop of sprawling, show-offy novels –dog′s breakfastsof facetiousness – that are currently the literary vogue.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seedog,‎breakfast.(Can wedatethis quote?), Alfred Anderson, “59. The Lazy Sisters and the Smart Sister”, inSwapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana‎[3],University Press of Mississippi, page133: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, thedog's breakfast, and the bull's breakfast.

Examples:

EN: I hear you made a dog's breakfast of your golf this morning.
ES: He oído que ha sufrido un descalabro en el campo de golf.
EN: That would be the dog's breakfast, Your Majesty.
ES: Es el desayuno del perro, Su Majestad.
EN: No wonder I've felt like a dog's breakfast ever since I got here.
ES: No me sorprende que me haya sentido como comida para perros desde que llegué. (ref: "A Dog's Breakfast")
EN: 'Cause I knew you'd make a dog's breakfast of it.
ES: Porque sabía que harías un desayuno de perro de ello.
EN: Uh, my grandma used to call them a real dog's breakfast.
ES: Mi abuela decía que eran mezclados como desayuno de perro.
EN: Seems fair. Try not to make a complete dog's breakfast of this, won't you?
ES: Trata de no hacer una pelea de perros de esto, ¿Podrías?
EN: My legacy has just become a dog's breakfast.
ES: Mi legado se ha convertido en un completo desastre.
EN: It doesn't take two eyes to see what a dog's breakfast you've made of this affair.
ES: No se necesitan dos ojos para ver en que tremendo lío has convertido este asunto.
EN: Dressed up like a dog's breakfast, on all fours, middle of the street!
ES: estoy hecha un desastre, en cuatro patas como si fuese un perro!
EN: Military intervention is a dog's breakfast, no matter the cause.
ES: La intervención militar es un perro y apos; s del desayuno, sin importar la causa.
EN: You know what I think of that dog's breakfast?
ES: ¿Sabes lo que pienso de ese desayuno de perro?
EN: Well... that was a complete and utter dog's breakfast, wasn't it?
ES: Bueno... esto ha sido una merienda de negros, ¿verdad?
EN: [headmaster] What a dog's breakfast.
ES: Qué desastre. A la mierda.
EN: - A dog's breakfast.
ES: - El desayuno de un perro.
EN: A dog's breakfast.
ES: El desayuno de un perro.

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