dog's dinner

1. 1.

   a poor job; a mess

   “they made a real dog's breakfast of that job”

   Synonymsdog's breakfast

   Broaderfix

   United Kingdom

Questions about dog's dinner

What does dog's dinner mean?

dog's dinner means "a poor job; a mess".

What is another word for dog's dinner?

Close synonyms include dog's breakfast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dog's dinner a common word?

dog's dinner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.