look like a bomb has hit it

English

Alternative forms

• look like a bomb's hit it

Verb

look like a bomb has hit it (third-person singular simple present looks like a bomb has hit it, present participle looking like a bomb has hit it, simple past and past participle looked like a bomb had hit it)

1. (simile, informal, of a place) to be very messy.

See also

• look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Further reading

• “look like a bomb has hit it” (US) / “look like a bomb has hit it” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “look like a bomb has hit it”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.