filling up the streets and blocking the lanes -- a great multitude of people

filling up the streets and blocking the lanes -- a great multitude of people

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is ti á NJI à s à IXI à ng, which means there are many people. It comes from the biography of Yu Wan in the book of the Southern Qi Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

Filling streets and overflowing alleys

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Yu Wan in the book of the Southern Qi Dynasty, "if you don't have long hair, you are called a Taoist. You can fill the streets and overflow the alleys everywhere."

Idiom usage

It's very crowded.

Examples

Chapter 29 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty: "Ji Shouming's order is to bathe and change clothes, take the rope and tie it to the scorching sun. The common people, the spectators, fill the streets and fill the alleys. "

The thirty first volume of "the first moment of surprise" says: "the people and horses of namancaopo are all gathered in the house to fill the streets."

In Chapter 9 of Li Yingru's wild fire and spring breeze fighting against the ancient city: "military cars fill the streets, which causes his fear and indignation."