donkey’s breakfast

donkey's breakfast

1. A mattress filled with straw. This term was commonly used by sailors. There's nothing I can sleep on—not even a donkey's breakfast?
2. A straw hat. Hand me my donkey's breakfast, will you? It's awfully sunny out today.
See also: breakfast
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

donkey’s breakfast

n. something made of straw: a straw hat, a straw mattress, etc. The tourist was wearing a red dress and had a donkey’s breakfast on her head.
See also: breakfast
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • donkey's breakfast
  • called to straw
  • a man of straw
  • man of straw
  • not worth a straw
  • final
  • the short straw
  • straws in (one's) hair
  • stumble at a straw
  • take a straw poll