dumpster fire

dumpster fire

slang A complete and utter disaster or a completely chaotic situation, likened to a fire in a dumpster, which quickly becomes uncontrollable. The phrase can be applied to both situations and people. As you might imagine, a 17-1 loss was a dumpster fire. That intern spilled coffee on himself yesterday and accidentally laminated his tie today. He's a total dumpster fire.
See also: fire
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • soup sandwich
  • the bloom is off the rose
  • the bloom is off
  • the blush is off the rose
  • zeek out
  • be off like a prom dress (in May)
  • prom
  • 5th
  • a fifth wheel
  • a fifth/third wheel
References in periodicals archive
"But if there's one thing that keeps me from throwing in the towel when the whole world seems like a giant Dumpster fire, it's that my mom's kindness didn't die with her."
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It ranked somewhere between a full-scale meltdown and a raging dumpster fire, and everything that occurred before and after in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 16-2 obliteration of the Sons of Gabe Kapler -- from the "Let's Go Dodgers!" chants in the first inning, to reliever Yacksel Rios getting ejected for hitting a batter with a first-pitch slider after giving up a two-run shot in the eighth, to a position player being asked to record the final four outs --somehow paled in comparison.
Dismal fourth inning punctuates Phillies' 16-2 loss to Dodgers
The other half of the image - painted around a corner - depicts a dumpster fire emitting smoke and ash.
More valuable for what it is than what it says?
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Head coach Alvin Gentry called the situation a(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVU833yKiUc) "dumpster fire " after Davis suffered a minor shoulder injury in the team's last game and left the building before the contest was over.
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Dell Demps was dropped as general manager of the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans on Friday after what coach Alvin Gentry called a "dumpster fire" surrounding star Anthony Davis.
NBA: Pelicans drop GM after Davis 'dumpster fire'
Cheers to this absolute dumpster fire of a movie," a comment read.
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And, despite the political dumpster fire this year has been, there's always something worth celebrating.
EDITOR'S LETTER
We are going to end this dumpster fire of a presidency one way or another."
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Police said that initially they had received a complaint about noise and a dumpster fire at the Ayia Fyla roundabout in Limassol.
Police arrest 14-year-old for knife and pot possession
But as these options becomes a standard (through FIDO and the W3C), it's another step away from the ongoing dumpster fire that is internet passwords.
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Congratulations everybody, 'dumpster fire' is now a dictionary entry, and here's why
'Dumpster fire' now comes of age
And the major-league team isn't exactly a dumpster fire.
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