【明報專訊】Polly and Thomas are newly-weds (新婚夫婦). Unfortunately, Polly's mother didn't teach her how to cook. "That's plain to see," she said, "for tonight I have made a pig's ear of my poor husband's dinner!" To make a pig's ear of something is to do something badly or to make a complete mess of it. "Don't worry, dear wife," Thomas assured her, "for I did the same thing. I was thinking of you so much today that I made a pig's ear of a report I was writing at the office."