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- noun UK A situation that is bad or
mismanaged in every way.
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Examples
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The outwardly crisp style of government it satirised has descended into a very public ‘omnishambles’.
Satire is dead 2009
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The outwardly crisp style of government it satirised has descended into a very public ‘omnishambles’.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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The omnishambles at the Ministry of Defence is such that, astonishingly, it may have supplanted the Home Office as the government department least fit-for-purpose.
The Chopper Wars 2009
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The outwardly crisp style of government it satirised has descended into a very public ‘omnishambles’.
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The omnishambles at the Ministry of Defence is such that, astonishingly, it may have supplanted the Home Office as the government department least fit-for-purpose.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The outwardly crisp style of government it satirised has descended into a very public ‘omnishambles’.
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Labour have, in the lingo of the The Thick of It, a major omnishambles on their hands.
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Just as Gordon Brown’s unpopularity cannot be ascribed solely to the economy, so the public’s contempt for the Westminster omnishambles extends beyond expenses.
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Just as Gordon Brown’s unpopularity cannot be ascribed solely to the economy, so the public’s contempt for the Westminster omnishambles extends beyond expenses.
Public contempt for political elites extends beyond the expenses scandal 2009
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In this afternoon’s Queen Speech debate (quite how our esteemed representatives can spend two days debating seven minutes worth of platitudes is beyond me), the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, described the Tories’ shambolic health policies as an ‘omnishambles’ - very ‘hip’ phraseology stolen from an Armando Ianucci penned Malcolm Tucker rant.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
bilby commented on the word omnishambles
A major snafu. Apparently a term popularised by a British tv program.
November 13, 2012
lkiser commented on the word omnishambles
the worthless word for the day is: omnishambles
omni-, all + shambles
Brit. a situation that has been comprehensively
mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders
and miscalculations; a complete screw-up in all areas
"'Omnishambles' is the word they are using in Downing
Street these days to describe the series of self-
inflicted political disasters that have engulfed the
prime minister, David Cameron, and his coalition
government."
- Independent, Dec. 07 2012
"Today Oxford University Press announces omnishambles
as Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year 2012.
Originally used in the British political comedy
television series The Thick of It, omnishambles has
gained momentum throughout 2012 as a word used to
describe a comprehensively mismanaged situation,
characterized by a shambolic string of blunders."
- OxfordWords blog, 13 Nov. 2012
December 18, 2012