couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery en · X
Pronunciation
Etymology
Presents an example of a minimally simple project that the person or group described is presumed unable to accomplish.
Meanings
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(Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, idiomatic, slang, vulgar) Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent; used to describe someone as greatly incompetent.
“Deladrieux should have stayed an accountant,” Murphy sighed. “He's got three people working for him but they're just administrative clerks, pencil-pushers, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. That's what you get when you assign engineering jobs to non-engineers.[…]”
2006, G. C. Lemans, Chantier: A tribute to the world's engineers and their partners in life, page 60:But, a tip for everyone reading this, don't use Visa Machine, as it couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery! And I should know, as I have had three breweries and I can!
2018 December 11, Ian Rogers, London to Magadan, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 47:'It'll be a sad day when the British leave. You lot couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery without the Queen, God bless her'.
2023 January 28, Martin Thiebaut, The Nomad Letters, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
Relateds
whelk stall · way to run a railroad · way out of a paper bag
Synonyms
couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery · couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel · couldn't pour water out of a boot · couldn't organise a two-ticket raffle