The meaning . It looks Micky Mouse?

Well Micky got up to some wild antics and things often fell apart so I think that if its Micky Mouse It could be slapdash,funny or just plain weird

I just had a thought , perhaps its the opposite due to it being down under

Mouse Meaning

I think they meant it looks cheap or a repair was done on the cheap. Mickey mouse also started or rejuvenated the plastics industries some with all the Micky Mouse products put out. Plastic used to be considered cheap and not worthy of merit.

It would be likely to say something like " The repair was a Mickey Mouse job. " meaning, someone hacked it together enough to get it working but the repair was poor quality.

Yes, I use this phrase and am from Illinois. A mickey Mouse outfit, doesn't refer to a costume but rather a group that are kinda losers/clown/ goof-offs or kids like in the Mickey Mouse club. Not high standard.

No I gotta get by to my Mickey Mouse answers.

I've done a lot of chatting with people in India over the past several years and I see where one thing I know of translates to something different or opposite there from the word or words I'd use here.

But here in the US alone cool and kool used to get confusing. Sometimes words in another country are substituted for other ones because of the difference in religion, morals, how people were brought up like what their parents taught them. I see that you use the word "learnt", we use the word "learned" here. The word "bloody" used in Europe makes me cringe (that word isn't used in the same context here). A lot of tan and black people say "this is where I stay" wherein white people here would say "this is where I live"; stay means temporary, live means something more permanent.

In the US back in probably the late 1960's Micky Mouse would have meant something silly or cartoonish but I haven't heard that phrase used in many many years.

In my part of Australia I have not heard the term that something is "Micky Mouse".

People might say "it looks like Micky Mouse" meaning it has big ears that stick out.

I can only speak for the West though. People in East Oz have different phrases and pronunciations for different words I have noticed.

When I was a kid (in California), I remember hearing many people say "That's the worst Mickey Mouse fix-it job I've ever seen...I hope you didn't pay him yet"! It meant that the handy man they hired to do a home repair was a character who did novice work that was seen as a joke.

I once drove a VW bug & I'd "mickey mouse" my fan belt with a pair of panty hose, when the belt broke, just to get me to the nearest gas station or to my house. Hey! It looked funny...but it sure worked!

I live in USA. Doing something in a Micky Mouse way is half assed...not a good job. Or a project that is a Micky Mouse project is so easy a child could do it.

Saying the word Mickey Mouse, to me means someone did a job and it wasn't right, a half a$$ job and I have used this expression for a job I considered Mickey Mouse.

Your concept of the meaning of "Mickey Mouse" is the accurate

description that those in the US came to believe. I used the term alot

back in my early 20's after hearing it used. It seemed to fit many

things I saw in life. Even once in a blue moon, I will use it today.

I always thought that something looking Mickey Mouse, means not good. I guess it has a different meaning, geographically.