proceed like a school of fishes , one after the other

proceed like a school of fishes , one after the other

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is y ú Gu à NY à nx í ng, which means the line of soldiers' ships. One ship is in the middle and the other ships are arranged in a herringbone pattern, like a fish tail or an array of geese. It comes from Ma Jianzhong's the book of setting up a Navy by Li Boxiang and he Shixue Ruzhang.

The origin of Idioms

Ma Jianzhong of the Qing Dynasty wrote that "the ships under his command can be operated in teams, and the speed of the navy is the same as that of the army."

Idiom usage

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