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"Couldn’t run a chook raffle" nghĩa là gì?
10 Feb, 2022
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"Couldn’t run a chook raffle" = không thể vận hành nổi buổi sổ xố -> nghĩa là người bất tài, không có năng lực tổ chức, sắp xếp công việc.
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Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the Melbourne Cup was ruined by the Victorian Government who “couldn’t even run a chook raffle, let alone a horse race”. Mr Bolt said the Andrews government couldn’t run its quarantine (cách ly) hotels properly, couldn’t do contact tracing properly, and – as was recently revealed – couldn’t disinfect its trains without “an allegedly corrupt company ripping it off and skipping a cleaning”.
Opposition (bên đối lập) Leader Michael O'Brien said the lump sum write-off of unpaid fines was another example of government wastage that left less funding for schools, ambulances and public transport. "This government couldn't run a chook raffle," he said.
In rural Australia it's common to run lotteries (quay số) at the local pubs, and the prize might easily be a roasting chicken. Country pub raffles are so common that most Australians could carry out such a task with their eyes closed, so to suggest that someone couldn't run a chook raffle is akin to saying they're useless.
Given the NSW govt totally messed up the Sydney lockdown, has had massive (to lớn) data breaches at Service NSW, its bureaucrats (quan liêu) are distracted by rainbow crap and generally they couldn't run a chook raffle, the good news with vaccine passports is that they will be another NSW debacle.
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