English Dictionary

dog's breakfast

名詞

オーストラリア英語 カナダ英語 ニュージーランド英語 イギリス英語 慣用表現

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, idiomatic) An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, breakfast.

日本語の意味

みっともなく、乱雑に混ざり合ったもの。 / 無秩序で混沌とした状態。 / 散らかっていて、めちゃくちゃな状況。

The salad at the buffet was a dog's breakfast, with soggy lettuce, overcooked pasta, and mismatched dressings.

ビュッフェのサラダはぐちゃぐちゃの混合物で、しんなりしたレタス、茹で過ぎたパスタ、合わないドレッシングが混ざっていた。

意味（1）

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, 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.

意味（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.

dog's breakfasts （ plural ）