all return to the same place though travelling in different roads
In Chinese, Pinyin is t ó nggu ī sh ū t ú, which means to reach the same destination through different ways. Metaphor takes different methods to get the same result. It comes from the book of changes.
The origin of Idioms
In the book of changes, Xi CI Xia: "the world will go to the same place and have different paths, and the same place will cause all kinds of worries."
Idiom grammar
Compound sentence; as predicate and attributive;
Examples
There are often several solutions to a problem, but there can only be one answer.
all return to the same place though travelling in different roads
veteran soldiers and able captains - jīng bīng qiáng jiàng
as easy as turning over the palm - yì rú fān zhǎng
reach the same goal by different means - yì lù tóng guī
get the chicken and lose the sheep - zhēng jī shī yáng