All roads lead to Rome

All roads lead to Rome

Different ways lead to the same goal. The Chinese idiom, pronounced sh ū t ú t ó nggu ī, refers to reaching the same destination through different ways. Metaphor takes different methods to get the same result. It comes from the book of changes.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonyms] happen to be the same and the opposite

The origin of Idioms

In the book of changes, Xici Part 2: "the world will return to the same place, but different ways will come, and the same will lead to a hundred worries."

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate, object, attribute, life, etc. example a problem, there are often several solutions, but ～, the answer can only have one.