flee pell-mell before

flee pell-mell before

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w à NGF à NGP à m à, which means that the army has no fighting spirit. Seeing each other's momentum from a long distance, they will collapse without confrontation. From Shanglin Fu.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] run away from the wind

Idiom usage

Where our army goes, the enemy will be happy and the people will be excited. Mao Zedong's declaration of the Chinese people's Liberation Army

The origin of Idioms

Sima Xiangru's Shanglin Fu in the Han Dynasty: "the wind should be swept, and the fragrance should be strong." According to the biography of Du Zhou in the history of Han Dynasty, "all the officials in the history of Han Dynasty are tongue tied, and all the flesh and blood relatives are millet."

Idiom story

In the Western Han Dynasty, Sima Xiangru, a writer, wrote Shanglin Fu, in which he tried his best to show the prosperity of Shanglin garden. Shanglin garden covers a large area, with eight rivers running incessantly and all kinds of rare animals. Flowers and trees are everywhere, plants and trees sway with the wind, like waves in the sea.