271. Feeding Time at the Zoo - idioms - Metaphors and Silmiles

Feeding Time at the Zoo :  극도로 정신없고, 부산스럽고, 무질서하고, 혼란스러운 상태

 

This phrase can be used as a metaphor or simile to talk about a situation that is loud, chaotic, unruly and that there is very littel control, it's noisy, untidy, absolutely no order

 

I'd invite you to my house but at this time of day it's feeding time at the zoo there

It's like feeding time at the zoo, it's crazy people runing around doing there thing

that's frenetic disorderly and messy 

What's going on the houses of parliament but sometimes and it to me it looks like feeding times at the zoo, they are shouting and there's all sorts of shenanigans of going on

 

to say a chaotic difficult situation 

I'd steer clear of this Street Market when the tourists are there, it's like feeding time at the zoo

I went to football match and I stand on the terraces with my friends and it was pure feeding time at the zoo 

the high street on Saturday night after the pubs close, it's feeding time at the zoo and police are always around

 

when all hell breaks loose, things are just completely uncontrolled, people being uncivilized unorganized, uncontrolled and in an uncoordinated and undisciplined manner

it's a free-for-all

any disorderly excited scene

this is an adjectival phrase, and this is rather light-hearted and rather funny, it's humorous use

 

Formality : 4.5

 

 

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