Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

omnishambolic

Urdu translation:

آوے کا آوا بگڑا ہوا ہونا

Added to glossary by Moazzam Ali
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English term

omnishambolic

GBK English to Urdu Other Slang
Definition from Oxford Dictionary:
Adjective: A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations. First used in the British satirical television series The Thick of It.
Example sentences:
Ken could still win. Anger at the Prime Minister and his omnishambolic administration could still tip the scales. (The Telegraph)
On charities, the reality is that the Prime Minister is not making the rich worse off. He is making charities worse off. Over the past month we have seen the charity tax shambles, the churches tax shambles, the caravan tax shambles and the pasty tax shambles, so we are all keen to hear the Prime Minister’s view on why he thinks, four weeks on from the Budget, even people within Downing Street are calling it an omnishambles Budget. (Parliament of the United Kingdom)
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آوے کا آوا بگڑا ہوا ہونا

Definition from Cambridge dictionary:
This word is a combination of Omni+shambolic<br />Where Omni means all; of all things or in all ways and<br />shamblic means &#039;badly organized&#039;<br /><br />In Urdu we use an Idiom : آوے کا آوا بگڑنا which means that all the things or persons are mismanaged so we will finally use following both options having same meaning;<br />a) آوے کا آوا بگڑا ہوا ہونا<br />b) سارے کے/کا سارے/سارا بگڑے ہوئے ہونا
Example sentences:
جب آوے کا آوا بگڑ جائے تو ایسا ہی ہوتا ہے (Urdu News)
آوے کا آوا ہی بگڑا ہوا ہے۔ یہ محاورہ شریف خاندان پر صادق آتا ہے (Public News)
آوے کا آوا ہی بگڑا ہوا ہے (wiktionary.org)
Peer comment(s):

agree Hatim Ali
3 days 1 hr
Thank you sir
agree Irfan Ullah (M.A English)
7 days
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