bump against things on every side
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k ē t ó up è NGN ǎ o, which means to describe people bumping with each other or things bumping with each other. From Dangkou Zhi.
The origin of Idioms
The 85th chapter of Dangkou Zhi written by Yu Wanchun in Qing Dynasty: "kowtow, they are all trees. They can't move. The helmet has already fallen to the ground, and ten thousand strands of green silk are scattered around the barrel of the gun."
Idiom usage
It's crowded and crowded. example what's the difficulty? Mr. Xiang, a famous Jinshi, kowtows all the way to the same year. What's the difficulty! The eighty third chapter of Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
bump against things on every side
in doing anything we must proceed step by step , from near to far - xíng yuǎn zì ěr
spread out and scatter about like stars in the sky or chessman on the chessboard - qí bù xīng chén
Sit on the fishing boat in spite of the storm - rèn píng fēng làng qǐ,wěn zuò diào yú chuán