七手八腳 (cat1 sau2 baat3 goek3) — too many people doing something (either in a helter-skelter fashion or along the lines of "too many cooks spoil the soup") in Cantonese
catˉ¹七sauˊ²手baat˗₃八goek˗₃腳简 七手八脚
Mandarin Pinyin: qi1 shou3 ba1 jiao3
Meaning of 七手八腳
nountoo many people doing something (either in a helter-skelter fashion or along the lines of "too many cooks spoil the soup")
nounseven hands eight feet, which means there are a lot of people interfering and the situation is messy