治丝益棼 zhìsīyìfén to make confusion worse Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 治丝益棼 治絲益棼 zhìsīyìfén to make confusion worse to try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further; used as a metaphor for trying to help or solve a problem but ending up making things more complicated and worse by not having a proper plan Frequency Written text 0.068 per million Cross-References Variant of 治丝而棼 zhìsī'érfén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
治丝益棼 治絲益棼 zhìsīyìfén to make confusion worse to try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further; used as a metaphor for trying to help or solve a problem but ending up making things more complicated and worse by not having a proper plan Frequency Written text 0.068 per million Cross-References Variant of 治丝而棼 zhìsī'érfén Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
