Question of the Day #486

"The elections are a hot mess. Why doesn't the Senate care?"
From the headline of this article at The Rice Thresher.

上記の文で、hot messの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "hot mess" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

見た目がひどい人

ただし、下記英語の定義にあるように、人以外にも使用可能です。

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

1. informal : something or someone that is emphatically a mess: such as
1. something in a state of extreme disorder or disarray
2. a disorganized, disheveled, or self-destructive person

Examples

• His latest outing, to a hot mess of a boutique hotel in New Mexico, is just as full of withering asides and bleeped-out F-bombs. — TV Guide
• She's a hard-drinking hot mess who scavenges the streets for castoff furniture and clothing that she spruces up and sometimes sells; how she survives in contemporary Los Angeles is one of the movie's biggest mysteries. — Sheri Lindenn
• I wish I could be that person that wakes up at 4a everyday to workout but I just can't stop pushing snooze until 15 minutes before I have to leave and look like a hot mess express with no workout done. 
• Una is such a hot mess she probably doesn't know what she's doing there herself.
• Maxine's is a crazy, disorganized hot mess of a place but the food is amazing.

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