dog's breakfast

American  

[dawgz brek-fuhst, dogz] / ˈdɔgz ˈbrɛk fəst, ˈdɒgz /

noun

Chiefly Canadian Slang.

1. a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.

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Etymology

Origin of dog's breakfast

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

The architecture of Artemis has been a dog’s breakfast, glopping together a bit of this and that, including “heritage hardware” derived from the Shuttle program.

From Slate

None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous.

From Salon

Tom Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, called it “a sort of a dog’s breakfast” of systems.

From New York Times

Of fame onstage, Gadsby says: “Don’t expect it, that’s gross. But just on the off chance you find yourself famous, you’d better be prepared. Because I wasn’t and I made a dog’s breakfast of it.”

From Seattle Times

One wonders whether Spoon, Ozzy and Machine Gun Kelly had ever been mentioned in the same sentence before they ended up in this dog’s breakfast of a category.

From Los Angeles Times