get together and disperse like animals and birds

get together and disperse like animals and birds

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh ò UJ ù Ni ǎ OS à n, which means gathering and scattering like birds and beasts. It means gathering and dispersing. It's also a metaphor for mobs. It comes from the biography of the lord father of Marquis Pingjin in historical records.

Analysis of Idioms

Birds scatter and animals gather

Antonym: unite as one

Idiom usage

As predicate, adverbial, metaphor mob

Examples

Who doesn't know the custom of Qiang di? They don't live in a place where animals gather and birds scatter. On Western Affairs written by Su Shunqin in Song Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of the lord father of Marquis Pingjin in historical records, "there is no Hun's nature. Animals gather together and birds scatter. It's like fighting shadow."