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    An omnishambles is a mess in every direction at once — not one broken thing, but the whole scene falling apart, usually because someone cannot do their job. It is a noun, British, and informal. People use it most about government: a plan that fails, then the excuse fails, then the next fix fails. The word is quite new. A British political comedy, The Thick of It, made it in 2009 from omni- (all) and shambles (a mess), and then newspapers stole it because it was funny and sharp. Though actually, shambles by itself already means a mess, so omnishambles is the same idea with a louder hat. Americans rarely say it; they would say a complete disaster or a total mess. It is not a kind word, but it is not a swear word either. You will meet it in British papers and political chat, not in science class, even though it sits next to omnipotent in the dictionary. You would not put it in a very formal exam essay unless you know the reader likes living, English.

    徹底一團糟;全面大亂(英國政治口語,台灣沒有固定詞)

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組成From omni- + shambles. Introduced by the television show The Thick of It in 2009. Shambles is an older English word for a mess.

同家族的字

  • shamblesthe second half: a mess
  • omnipotentshares only the prefix omni- “all”; this word is modern and jokey, not church Latin

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

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omnishamblesnoun/ˈɒmniˌʃæmbəlz/

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    informalgovernmentpoliticsA situation that is bad or mismanaged in every way.

    • Near-synonyms: clusterfuck, debacle, fiasco, hot mess, perfect storm, shit show, shitstorm
    • Between the car accident, the food poisoning and the lost keys, the holiday was an omnishambles.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。