sail against the current

sail against the current

Sailing against the current, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is n ì Shu ǐ x í ngzh ō u, which means sailing against the direction of the current. It means going backward without effort. It comes from qijieting essays, Wentan outside the gate.

The origin of Idioms

Even if we are still sailing against the current, we have to pull the fiber. Lu Xun's essays on qijieting

Idiom usage

It is often used in conjunction with "no advance, no retreat". Example: Liang Qichao's speech on the theory of the welcome meeting of Shanxi ticket merchants in the Qing Dynasty: "if you are old enough, you can keep it! However, I think that people in the world, such as the boat against the current, do not advance or retreat "If you don't advance, you will retreat; if you don't like, you will worry; if you don't want, you will die."