couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery

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  1. Is unable even to organise a project that requires no planning; is incompetent; used to describe someone as greatly incompetent. Australia,Ireland,New-Zealand,UK,idiomatic
    — “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.[…]”

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Presents an example of a minimally simple project that the person or group described is presumed unable to accomplish.
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