soup sandwich
Someone or something that is disorganized, incompetent, fundamentally flawed or unfinished.
That's as messed up as a soup sandwich.
ADJ
cheese, ham, etc. | toasted | open | club
QUANT
round
VERB + SANDWICH
make | bite into, eat, have, munch, take a bite of
SANDWICH + NOUN
filling | bag, box | bar
PREP
in a/the ~
noun
A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.
Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
A layer cake or sandwich cake.
[…] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.
A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.
verb
To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.
An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.
To put or set between two other events in time.
Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.
Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
To double penetrate.
They sandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples
To feed sandwiches to.
But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!"
The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.
To eat sandwiches.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .
He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.
adj
Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.
Someone or something that is disorganized, incompetent, fundamentally flawed or unfinished.
That's as messed up as a soup sandwich.
Something highly undesirable that is rendered more acceptable or palatable by the addition of more tolerable or agreeable components.
People are starting to realize Thursday night is like a big double-decker shit sandwich with three good pieces of bread, and in between ... don't print that.
A wake-up call, a reality check.
Of a grand jury: to charge a person with a crime, despite a perceived lack of evidence.
Advocates of the grand jury say it is the only shield in the criminal justice system between police and prosecutors and the accused. […] But critics say the grand jury doesn't shie
A sandwich consisting only of bread and optionally a spread, but no filling.
Glancing into his wallet, he had just enough to cover it and a tad left to make it through the day's expenses, providing he had an air sandwich and glass of water for lunch.
The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.
Wiktionary[…] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.
WiktionaryWe have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.
WiktionaryWe saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.
WiktionaryAn oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.
WiktionaryBut as the game looked destined for a stalemate at half-time, the hammer blow arrived. A corner was just about cleared, only for the Scots to switch off. Vladimir Coufal overlapped with space and time
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, sandwich is marked as archaic, figuratively, informal, obsolete, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.