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omnishambles

omnishambles

English

Noun

omnishambles (plural omnishambles)

  1. (Britain, informal, chiefly politics) A situation that is bad or mismanaged in every way.
    Between the car accident, the food poisoning and the lost keys, the holiday was an omnishambles.

Quotations

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References

  1. George Eaton (18 April 2012), “The origin of ‘omnishambles’”, in New Statesman, archived from the original on 31 May 2015.