Shoulder to shoulder

Shoulder to shoulder

Shoulder to shoulder, pronounced Ji ā nm ó m è Iji ē, is a Chinese idiom used to describe crowded people. It is written in Song Lian's preface to Chen de Yan.

explain

People rub their shoulders and their sleeves meet.

Source of allusion

Song Lian of the Ming Dynasty wrote a preface to Chen de Yan: "since I was nearly a year old, I have come here to pray for literature, and I have declined everything for a long time."

Idiom information

Synonyms: shoulder to shoulder degree of common use: remote emotional color: commendatory words grammatical usage: as predicate and attribute; for many people idiom structure: combined generation time: Ancient