Chinese-fire-drill
noun, Slang: Usually Offensive.
1.
a state of chaotic, often clamorous disorder.
noun
any state of disorder or confusion
noun phrase
Something incredibly confused and confusing: an eight-page letter with a Chinese fire drill of your life/ did their Chinese fire drill of calling the fix-it man
[perhaps fr the WWII Marine Corps expression ”fucked up like Chinese fire call”]
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