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
- 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