一塌糊涂
Traditional form:
一塌糊塗
Pinyin (reading):
yītāhútu
Definitions:
- muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition
- complete shambles
- a total mess
Characters:
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 塌 - to collapse, to fall into ruin
- 糊 - muddled; paste; to stick on with paste
- 涂 - to smear, to scribble, to daub; surname
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