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dog's breakfast

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  • noun UK, Australia, Canada, idiomatic An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.

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  • noun a poor job; a mess

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  • As I recall, this was Kurt Vonnegut's term for the brain. See brain bucket.

    September 30, 2007

  • Whereas its my term for a complete mess of things, especially in connection with graphic design that lacks a clear aesthetic and visual focus, as in "That new poster concept looks like a dog's breakfast."

    October 19, 2008

  • A derogatory term for something composed of a mishmash of poorly chosen components. Most often used in design or engineering. "That screen is a dog's breakfast of information and alerts."

    February 20, 2009

  • “The systems use a dog's breakfast of custom codes and command system, with no standardization, let alone basic security. All systems pose some risk of vulnerabilities, but in this case it's like they didn't even try.“

    — “Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators” (https://boingboing.net/2019/03/15/not-even-trying-2.html/)

    March 17, 2019