Where does it come from?" Since it came from Mike Wines down the hall, I asked him for an explanatory memo. He wrote: "A dog's breakfast is any kind of smorgasbord prepared, in haste or at random, from life's castoffs.
British, informal. : something that is messy or poorly done. It was a dog's breakfast of a match, and our coach was understandably upset.
The phrase's definition is based on the quote, “In a lump like a dog's breakfast, said of a heterogeneous heap of things.” The phrase has a British ring to it. However, it is also often used by Aussies to refer to a messy situation.
Noun. dog's breakfast (plural dog's breakfasts) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, idiomatic) An unappealing mixture; a disorderly situation; a mess.
Dogfooding (verb) means using your own product before it's launched. Dog fooding can help with quality assurance, user experience, and potentially new ideas.
A: So, that leads us to “brekky” or “brekkie”.
brekkie – breakfast
Although it sounds like breakfast for kids, brekkie is the Australian meal everyone has in the morning.
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” “Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.” “Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”
said to mean that everyone will be successful or lucky at some time in their life. This expression is sometimes used to encourage someone at a time when they are not having any success or luck. I've been waiting a long time for success — four years — but every dog has its day.
Whippet Angel : All dogs go to heaven because, unlike people, dogs are naturally good and loyal and kind.
The slang lexicographer Eric Partridge cited Glasgow circa 1934 as its place and time of origin, though he noted that Australians also used the phrase with the same meaning as "confusion, mess, turmoil." (After a three-dog night , one so cold it required three dogs to keep you warm, a dog's breakfast could be quite a ...
[British] a situation, event, or piece of work that is chaotic, badly organized, or very untidy.
To dog, as a verb, can mean to insult someone in front of his friends. In Australian slang it is used for a police informer.
If you can't tell, Australians like to shorten their words! Avo: this is what we call an avocado. This is a good one to know, because smashed avo (mashed avocado on toast) is very popular in Australian cafes.
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
In Australian English a goog is an egg. It is an abbreviation of the British dialect word goggy 'a child's name for an egg', retained in Scotland as goggie. The phrase is a variation of an earlier British phrase in the same sense: full as a tick, recorded from the late 17th century.
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
You probably get the idea about what the phrase, “To hit the hay” or “To hit the sack” means. They both are exactly the same thing, and it's just that idea of going to bed, getting into bed, hitting the hay, hitting the sack.
"Rise and grind: coffee and breakfast time!" "Oat to be a great day with a hearty breakfast!" "Flippin' pancakes and flippin' happy!" "Time to baconate the day with a delicious breakfast!"
Breakfast: This is also called brekkie by some but not common. Breakfast is usually the same everywhere though the contents of breakfast will vary hugely. Both Britain and Ireland are famous for their cooked breakfast which is known as "full" or "cooked" breakfast.
“Serve me breakfast” maintains its meaning to the Millennials, but to the Gen-Z, the phrase is used to explain that they have experienced some form of disappointment.