pig's breakfast

Hacker: That's all ancient history, surely?
Sir Humphrey: Yes, and current policy. We 'had' to break the whole thing [the EEC] up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... The Foreign Office is terribly pleased; it's just like old times.
----Yes Minister

• Yes Minister...Yes, Prime Minister《是，大臣》...《是，首相》

pig's breakfast

informal

NOUN

Something unattractive or unappetizing; a mess, a muddle.

Origin

1930s; earliest use found in Leopold Acland (1876–1948).