Meaning of tohu-bohu | Babel Free

Definitions

Chaos, disorder, confusion.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Yet a judge may […] be required to dive, at a moment's notice, into the tohu-bohu of inquiries, which have never yet emerged from the stage of chaos...”

“[…] / The decorative manias we obey / Die in grimaces round us every day, / Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice / Which utters an absurd command — Rejoice.”

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