那把我们搞得 鸡飞狗跳的 对吧
“threw us into utter chaos. Right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就一个李镇长
“Ms. Li, only one person,”
那把我们 搞得 鸡飞狗跳 的 对吧
“threw us into utter chaos. Right?”
别跑题 说你自己
“Don't digress. This is about you.”
“It wasn't my fault; that person turned everything upside down for all of us.”
Invoking a state of general turmoil ('us' rather than 'me') is a common communicative tactic to dilute individual responsibility during evaluations or confrontations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in utter chaos; pandemonium
A vivid four-character idiom describing a chaotic, disrupted environment caused by turmoil.
to cause or result in
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to introduce an undesirable or messy result.
Functions as a tag question seeking confirmation or consensus from the conversational partner.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The whole company was a mess because of him.”
“Turning our house upside down”
“Things are already a total mess.”