British Word of the Week: Dog’s Dinner

October 31, 2012

This week it’s really British slang we’re covering and not a British word. As you may know Brits use some of the most interesting, colourful and sometimes baffling slang on the planet- but we love it!

Dog’s dinner – a real mess.

If you make a real mess of something, one might say you made a “dog’s dinner” of it.

British Word of the Week: Dogs Dinner

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1 Pauline Wiles October 31, 2012 at 11:16 pm

I’m a one-time Brit now living in the States and I still come out with expressions like this and get blank looks.
But, yes, dog’s dinner is a good one!

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