dog's breakfast
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.57 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dog, breakfast.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "Critics here are reserving judgement on whether ABC will do "Life in Mars" justice or make a dog's breakfast of it."
- "I'd trade one of their sublime sentences for the entire crop of sprawling, show-offy novels – dog′s breakfasts of facetiousness – that are currently the literary vogue."
- "The highest-grossing movie in America last year culminated in a dog’s breakfast of warmed-over, second-wave feminist sloganeering that would have sounded tired coming from the mouth of Gloria Steinem in 1968."
- "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."
Usage
- British usage