omnishambles

English
WOTD – 31 May 2012

Etymology

omni- +‎ shambles. Coined by the television show The Thick of It in 2009.[1]

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

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:omnishambles.

Synonyms

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