It is a hotchpotch of disparate elements which are held together by their shared status of science's outcasts.
He proposed the introduction of a general law of incorporation and the abolition of special-charter state banks which encouraged a hotchpotch of note issues.
Implicit in the party's promise of the ' national community ', as it bid for power, were proposals to improve the well-being of its hotchpotch constituency, including workers.
Many people find it unsatisfactory that there is a hotchpotch of road schemes, some wider and some a little narrower, and some dual carriageway.
It is increasingly resembling a hotchpotch: everyone has a say and makes proposals, which leaves us ultimately with a kind of wish list.
In fact, this is but a hotchpotch of arrangements which each local authority proposes without any idea of what the national guidance should be.
Is the development plan just a hotchpotch of all sorts of bits and pieces, or is it something that is definitely planned?
With respect, that is rather a hotchpotch of questions.