lung tung beng
Definition
- Adjective/Adverb (colloquial):
- In a messy, chaotic, or disorderly manner: Describes a state or action that is extremely disorganized, haphazard, or scattered without any order.
- All over the place: Used to indicate things are spread out or arranged in a completely random and untidy way.
Usage Examples
- Adjective/Adverb:
- Đồ đạc trong phòng bày lung tung beng. (The things in the room were placed in a complete mess.)
- Bọn trẻ chạy lung tung beng trong sân. (The children ran around chaotically all over the yard.)
- Nó nói lung tung beng, chẳng ai hiểu gì. (He talked in a completely disjointed way; nobody understood anything.)
Advanced Usage
- The phrase is often used for emphasis, with "beng" intensifying the disorder implied by "lung tung." It is informal and commonly used in spoken language.
Variants and Related Words
- Lung tung (adj/adv): Messy, disorderly. A slightly less emphatic form.
- Giấy tờ để lung tung trên bàn. (The papers were left in a mess on the desk.)
Synonyms
- Chaotically: In a manner lacking order or organization.
- Haphazardly: In a random or disordered way.
- Helter-skelter: In hurried and disorderly confusion.
Related Idioms
- Đầu voi đuôi chuột: Literally "head of an elephant, tail of a mouse," meaning something that starts grandly but ends poorly or incoherently. This shares a conceptual link with disorderliness but is not a direct synonym.
- Lộn xộn: A standard term for messy or confused, less emphatic than "lung tung beng."
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