utter disorder

utter disorder

It is a Chinese idiom with the pronunciation of Y ā f ē iqu è Lu à n, which means that it is full of words; it describes disorder. It comes from folk song: fish boat women beat strangers and scold each other.

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty wrote in the folk song "fish boat women beat strangers to scold each other": "a mouth is like a flying Magpie in disorder, and it's used to be a cowhide and bird's tendon for a long time."

Idiom usage

Used as attributive or adverbial; used in figurative sentences. When Zhao Desheng and Liao Yongzhong had been killed in the old camp, they scattered the fire, and the flames burst into the sky. Wu soldiers fled in disorder. (Chapter 2 and 3 of biography of Heroes)