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dog's breakfast
noun as in can of worms
noun as in mare's nest
Example Sentences
Tom Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, called it “a sort of a dog’s breakfast” of systems.
Of fame onstage, Gadsby says: “Don’t expect it, that’s gross. But just on the off chance you find yourself famous, you’d better be prepared. Because I wasn’t and I made a dog’s breakfast of it.”
One wonders whether Spoon, Ozzy and Machine Gun Kelly had ever been mentioned in the same sentence before they ended up in this dog’s breakfast of a category.
The dog’s breakfast of human beings who were allowed to attach themselves to the president in the waning days of his tenure provides a cautionary tale.
“It’s a dog’s breakfast,” said Mary Crock, a law professor at the University of Sydney.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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