It's a mess

It's a mess

The explanation is that the words are scattered. It describes the appearance of being scattered and sparse. It refers in particular to the fact that many neat things have been scattered.

Idioms and allusions

Chapter 13 of Liu Qing's Tongqiang Tiebi: "he and his mother-in-law used the demobilization fee as capital to set up the goods box of the stall, which was smashed to pieces and left in the courtyard one by one."

Discrimination of words

Usage: used as attributive and adverbial; used in spoken English