lazy woman's foot-binding bandages; a metaphor for writing or speech that is both smelly and long, or insufferably tedious and boring

(xiehouyu) tedious and stale; describes a person's speech or writing that is long-winded and unpleasant, similar to the "smelly and long" foot-binding rags of an old woman.

a long strip of cloth used in former times to bind women's feet or used by men to wrap their feet when wearing cloth socks

a woman's foot-binding bandages; a long-winded and boring speech or piece of writing