like draws to like

like draws to like

In Chinese, Pinyin is t ó NGL è IXI ā ngqi ú, which means that the same kind of things converge with each other. It comes from the biography of Boyi in historical records by Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty.

Idiom usage

It is easy for them to combine.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: congenial antonym: out of place

The origin of Idioms

Sima Qian's biography of Boyi in historical records in the Western Han Dynasty said, "the same kind of things, the same kind of things, the cloud from the dragon, the wind from the tiger."

Idiom explanation

Refers to the aggregation of things of the same kind.

Idiom story

In the Western Han Dynasty, Jia Yi believed that Boyi and Shuqi died of starvation in Shouyang mountain in the last years of the Shang Dynasty. Confucius wrote a monument for them and believed that people with virtue would die for fame and integrity. Why did Confucius set up a monument for them? It's because people with the same morality will be like each other.