Josiah
Senior Member
- Location
- 50 miles east of Cincinnati, OH
[h=1]omnishambles[/h]Line breaks: omni|sham¦blesPronunciation: /ˈɒmnɪʃamb(ə)lz
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[h=2]Definition of omnishambles in English:[/h][h=3]NOUN[/h]British informalA situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blundersand miscalculations:anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted theentire omnishambles by checking the civil servants' sums MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
[h=3]Origin[/h]early 21st century: from omni- + shambles, first used in the British satirical television series The Thick of It.
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[h=2]Definition of omnishambles in English:[/h][h=3]NOUN[/h]British informalA situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blundersand miscalculations:anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted theentire omnishambles by checking the civil servants' sums MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
[h=3]Origin[/h]early 21st century: from omni- + shambles, first used in the British satirical television series The Thick of It.