"shit sandwich" meaning in English

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      "form": "shit sandwiches",
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        "plural"
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    }
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      "expansion": "shit sandwich (plural shit sandwiches)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 April 17, David Wild, “'News Radio': Series creator Paul Simms talks about the highly likely cancellation of the NBC sitcom”, in Rolling Stone, retrieved 2017-02-19",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 30, Fred R. Shapiro, “13 Crazy, Dirty Modern Proverbs”, in Daily Beast, retrieved 2017-02-19",
          "text": "Life is a shit sandwich: the more bread you have, the less shit you eat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 February 17, Kevin Drum, “K.T. McFarland Is Too Much to Swallow, So Robert Harward Turns Down NSA Position”, in Mother Jones, retrieved 2017-02-19",
          "text": "After Michael Flynn resigned/was fired as National Security Advisor, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the top prospect to replace him turned out to be Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward. . . . Harward pulled out, reportedly calling the offer a \"shit sandwich.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something highly undesirable made triflingly more palatable by attempting to surround it with more tolerable things."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
        ],
        [
          "trifling",
          "trifling"
        ],
        [
          "palatable",
          "palatable"
        ],
        [
          "tolerable",
          "tolerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, vulgar) Something highly undesirable made triflingly more palatable by attempting to surround it with more tolerable things."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "nothing sandwich"
        },
        {
          "word": "shit soup"
        },
        {
          "word": "soup sandwich"
        },
        {
          "word": "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "poop sandwich"
        },
        {
          "word": "dirt sandwich"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "sandwich de marde"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "bajsmacka"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shit sandwich"
}

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      "form": "shit sandwiches",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "shit sandwich (plural shit sandwiches)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "nothing sandwich"
    },
    {
      "word": "shit soup"
    },
    {
      "word": "soup sandwich"
    },
    {
      "word": "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 April 17, David Wild, “'News Radio': Series creator Paul Simms talks about the highly likely cancellation of the NBC sitcom”, in Rolling Stone, retrieved 2017-02-19",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 30, Fred R. Shapiro, “13 Crazy, Dirty Modern Proverbs”, in Daily Beast, retrieved 2017-02-19",
          "text": "Life is a shit sandwich: the more bread you have, the less shit you eat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 February 17, Kevin Drum, “K.T. McFarland Is Too Much to Swallow, So Robert Harward Turns Down NSA Position”, in Mother Jones, retrieved 2017-02-19",
          "text": "After Michael Flynn resigned/was fired as National Security Advisor, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the top prospect to replace him turned out to be Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward. . . . Harward pulled out, reportedly calling the offer a \"shit sandwich.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something highly undesirable made triflingly more palatable by attempting to surround it with more tolerable things."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
        ],
        [
          "trifling",
          "trifling"
        ],
        [
          "palatable",
          "palatable"
        ],
        [
          "tolerable",
          "tolerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, vulgar) Something highly undesirable made triflingly more palatable by attempting to surround it with more tolerable things."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "poop sandwich"
    },
    {
      "word": "dirt sandwich"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "sandwich de marde"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bajsmacka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shit sandwich"
}