be crowded together
Shoulder to shoulder, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is "Iji" NC "B" ng, which means that the body is close to each other. Also describes the crowd is very crowded scene. It comes from the debt of the next life written by Liu Junxi in Yuan Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The first discount of Yuan Dynasty Liu Junxi's the debt of the next life: "why do you have to brush your shoulders? What do you feel in my arms?"
Idiom usage
The people who look around on both sides are rubbing their shoulders. I don't know the number. The fourth chapter of Jin Ping Mei CI Hua
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: shoulder to shoulder [antonym]: vast territory and few people
be crowded together
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remove those who disagree with sb. - pái chì yì jǐ
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