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Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me, Faye

And hello, I'm Neil. Do you know who made that awful mess in the kitchen?

It's me. I'm just cooking. I'll clean it up as soon as I'm finished.

Well it looks like a dock's dinner in there.

A dinner for my dog.

Don't be silly.

I've already cooked for Layer, my dog.

This is a meal for the whole BBC Learning English team.

No, Neil, I didn't say a dinner for your dog. I said a dog's dinner. We use this

expression a dog's dinner to describe a complete mess, which is why I said the

kitchen looks like a dog's dinner.

You think the kitchen looks a mess, but I'm only using one pan?

Not that kitchen, the other one.

Look at it.

Oh wow, that really is a dog's dinner. I wonder who made all that mess

Let's find out while we'll listen to these examples

He made a dog's dinner of his final project and failed the course.

She made a dog's dinner of her hair when she tried to cut it herself.

The room looked like a dog's dinner five minutes after my son arrived. This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English.

We're learning about the expression a Doc's dinner, which means a total mess.

So did you find out who made all that mess?

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