(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, 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."
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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