unkempt

unkempt

Pompous head and bare feet, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p é NGT ó uxi ǎ NZ ú, which means to describe a person's disheveled clothes, very embarrassed or in distress. From Yu Shi Ming Yan.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: scientific head and simple foot

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong's Yu Shi Ming Yan of the Ming Dynasty, Vol. 27: "the later husband of the wife of the Maichen was also in service, and her wife was barefoot and disheveled, and accompanied her to deliver food."

Idiom usage

As a predicate or attributive; of a person's appearance. She looks very ugly.