Shoulder to shoulder

Shoulder to shoulder

Yajiandiebei, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y à Ji à NDI é B è I, which means shoulder to shoulder, back to back; it describes crowded people. From the outlaws of the marsh.

The origin of Idioms

The 23rd chapter of Water Margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty: "when Wu Song looked at it from the sedan chair, he saw that there were many people on his shoulders, making a lot of noise, blocking the streets and alleys, all of them came to see the insects."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial to describe crowded people. The people in the street were huddled shoulder to shoulder.