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- Dictionaryomnishambles/ˈɒmnɪʃamblz/
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- 1. a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations: informal British "anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted the entire omnishambles by checking the civil servants' sums"
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Omnishambles is a UK informal word for a situation that is bad in many different ways, because things have been organized badly and serious mistakes have been made. Learn more about its pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, and translations.
- English (US)
OMNISHAMBLES meaning: 1. a situation that is bad in many...
- Znaczenie Omnishambles, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
omnishambles definicja: 1. a situation that is bad in many...
- Translate to Traditional Chinese
OMNISHAMBLES translate: （因為組織糟糕和嚴重錯誤導致的）各方面都很糟糕的局面. Learn...
- Cambridge English Dictionary에서의 의미
omnishambles 의미, 정의, omnishambles의 정의: 1. a situation that...
- Omnishambles in Simplified Chinese
omnishambles translate: （因为组织糟糕和严重错误导致的）各方面都很糟糕的局面. Learn...
- English (US)
Omnishambles is a neologism first used in the BBC political satire The Thick of It in 2009. The word is compounded from the Latin prefix omni-, meaning "all", and the word shambles, a term for a situation of total disorder.
Omnishambles definition: a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences. See examples of OMNISHAMBLES used in a sentence.
Omnishambles is a British informal word for a situation that has been completely mismanaged. It was first used in the satirical comedy The Thick of It and has been applied to various political scandals and blunders.
Definition of omnishambles noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Omnishambles is a British colloquial term for a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged or a person or group responsible for such a situation. It originated from a political satire and became widely used in 2012.
Jun 2, 2024 · omnishambles (plural omnishambles) ( UK , 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 .
