be all at sevens and eights(qī diān bā dǎo)

be all at sevens and eights

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī di ā Nb ā D ǎ o, which means the description is very messy. From the biography of lanterns in Jingde.

The origin of Idioms

In the Song Dynasty, Shi Daoyuan's Jingde Zhuandeng Lu (Volume 21), "when asked how to be a Buddhist master, the master said:" seven confused. "

Idiom usage

The description is very messy. Unfortunately, he has been dead for three years now, and everything at home is in a mess. The twenty fourth chapter of Shi Naian's the complete story of the water margin in Ming Dynasty. The first chapter of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: when my family saw that Sister Feng was not here, some of them took time off to have a rest. They were already making a lot of noise, and they were in a mess. "Warning of the world. Vol.2-4. Yu Tangchun meets her husband when she is in trouble": just because of this enemy, I'm in a mess. Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged: "this girl has great ability. We've both been fooled by her."

Chinese PinYin : qī diān bā dǎo