Pig's ear
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Verb
- To do badly; to make a mess of.
- He's made a right pig's ear of his life.
- 1989, Neil Gaiman, Men of Good Fortune, The Sandman #11, p. 1
- … look, I’ve seen death. I lost half my village to the black death. I fought under Buckingham in Burgundy, and you know what a pig’s ear that was.