干河滩撒网，瞎张罗幹河灘撒網，瞎張羅幹河灘撒網，瞎張羅

casting a net on a dry riverbed: busy for nothing

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Busy bustling with no sense of the real situation; wasted effort. Mildly mocking.
Wordplay: 张罗 read as zhāngluó 'spread a net' and zhāngluo 'bustle about' – the same characters with two readings, so casting a net becomes bustling in vain.

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Simplified: 干河滩撒网，瞎张罗
Traditional (Taiwan): 幹河灘撒網，瞎張羅
Pinyin: gàn hétān sāwǎng, xiā zhāngluo
Bopomofo: ㄍㄢˋ ㄏㄜˊ ㄊㄢㄙㄚㄨㄤˇ，ㄒㄧㄚㄓㄤ ˙ㄌㄨㄛ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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