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   omnishambles

   /ˈɒmnɪʃamblz/

   noun

   • 1. a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations: informal British "anyone with five minutes to spare, a Maths GCSE, and a calculator could have averted the entire omnishambles by checking the civil servants' sums"

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

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