omnishambles
/ˈɒmnɪʃamb(ə)lz
/noun British informal
A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations: anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted the entire omnishambles by checking the civil servants' sums...
- A nation wondered what the next level up from omnishambles was.
- The change in course is the fourth major U-turn the Chancellor has made since his omnishambles Budget in March.
- Describing the Government's defence policy as an omnishambles would be a compliment.
Origin
Early 21st century: from omni- + shambles, first used in the British satirical television series The Thick of It.
- first-handedness
- firsthandness
- firsthood
- firsting
- first intention
- First International
- First Lady
- first language
- first lieutenancy
- first lieutenant
- first light
- first-line
- firstling
- firstlins
- First Lord
- First Lord of the Admiralty
- First Lord of the Treasury
- first love
- first luff
- firstly
- first magistrate
- first man
- first mate
- first matter
- first minister