RichThesaurus
make a pig's ear of
vs
screw the pooch
make a pig's ear of
verb
To do badly; to make a mess of.
screw the pooch
verb
To screw up; to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion.
How often have the words
make a pig's ear of
and
screw the pooch
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)