idiom
a recipe for disaster
uh RES-ih-pee for dih-ZAS-tur
ə ˈrɛsɪpi fɔːr dɪˈzæstərListen
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Syllable breakdown
arecipefordisaster
Dictionary meaning
a combination of circumstances, decisions, or ingredients that is virtually certain to produce a catastrophic or very bad outcome; a situation where the wrong elements have been combined in a way that makes failure or harm nearly inevitable; the culinary metaphor implies that just as mixing wrong ingredients produces inedible results, certain combinations of factors in human affairs reliably produce negative consequences
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