Advance and retreat news
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì NTU ì Xi ā ox ī, meaning increase or decrease; change. It's from Shengwu Ji.
The origin of Idioms
Wei Yuan's Shengwu Ji of the Qing Dynasty states: "because of the retrogression to the rise and fall of the people's resources and material resources, people and customs are in and out of the news."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: in and out, in and out
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used to change
Advance and retreat news
scratch the back while the knee is itching -- irrelevant - xī yǎng sāo bèi
do one 's best till one 's heart ceases to beat - sǐ ér hòu yǐ