dog's breakfast

noun dog's breakfasts

1. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess. So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it."
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, breakfast. 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, the dog's breakfast, and the bull's breakfast.