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omnishambles noun [ ˈɒmnɪʃamb(ə)lz ]

• 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"
Origin: early 21st century: from omni- + shambles, first used in the British satirical television series The Thick of It .


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