Pig's ear (food)
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Verb



  1. 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.
 
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