dog’s breakfast

dog’s breakfast
 n.— «But putting these disparate works all together would make for the sort of motley that is sometimes referred to as a dog’s breakfast (although it would feed one very lucky dog!)» —“Old, English And Very Polished” by Tim Page Washington Post June 21, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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