have hundreds of attendants at one 's beck and call

have hundreds of attendants at one 's beck and call

One hundred Nuo, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī h ū B ǎ INU, which means one person calls and one hundred people respond. He is rich and powerful and has many servants. From Han Shi waizhuan.

Idiom explanation

Nuo: response, promise. One person's call and one hundred people's response have high prestige and influence. The same "echo".

Idiom usage

Contraction; predicate and attribute; derogatory

The origin of Idioms

Han Han Ying's "Han Shi waizhuan" Volume 5: the current pleasure, a call again promise, people also. Tang Shide's poem: in the floating world of life, everyone is willing to be rich; there are many chariots and horses in the high hall, and a lot of promises. Farmers' Association members are everywhere, spears and clubs are everywhere, and bandits have no place to hide. ——Mao Zedong's investigation report on Hunan Peasant Movement

Discrimination of words

Antonyms: isolated, helpless, lonely, hard to sing