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"At sixes and sevens" nghĩa là gì?
02 Aug, 2019
Đây là đâu và tôi là ai? Photo by Hoshino Ai
"At sixes and sevens" -> Lộn xộn, bối rối, lung tung và thiếu tổ chức.
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Off to Word Origins to answer this one, Eric, which states: “‘At sixes and sevens’ is a very old catchphrase (câu nói thông dụng) and relates to gambling. It first appears c.1374 in Chaucer’s Troylus. The original phrasing was ‘set upon six and seven’. It referred to betting one’s entire fortune (cá cược cả gia tài) on one throw of the dice [this, it transpires, being a game called ‘hazard’, more commonly known as craps (trò chơi súc sắc)].
After the mindboggling (dị thường) ‘modern’ mathematics video widely circulated (truyền bá) on WhatsApp, showing a maths teacher losing her job for trying to tell a student 2+2 equals 4 and not 22, this seemingly simple problem has left netizens at sixes and sevens.
Chiefs’ Dumisani Zuma, who has since been nicknamed ‘uBaba’ after former President Jacob Zuma, tried hard to find an equaliser for Chiefs in the 22nd minute but unfortunately ballooned his effort over the crossbar with former Mamelodi Sundowns keeper Wayne Sandilands at sixes and sevens.
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