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Dog's Dinner
Dog's Dinner
Dog's Dinner : Phrases
Meaning:
Dressed or displayed in an ostentatiously smart manner.
Origin:
Why a dog's breakfast is synonymous with mess or muddle and dog's dinner with smartness isn't at all clear. It appears that the two phrases were coined entirely independently of each other.
'Dog's dinner' is first cited in ‘C. L. Anthony's play 'Touch Wood', 1934:
"Why have you got those roses in your hair? You look like the dog's dinner."
