to see little of each other though living nearby

to see little of each other though living nearby

It's a Chinese idiom, and its pinyin is zh ǐ ch ǐ Ti ā NY á, which means that although the distance is close, it's hard to meet, just like in the far distance. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the ninth year of Duke Fu.

Analysis of Idioms

A thousand miles away, far away, far away from each other

The origin of Idioms

Li Zhong, Tang Dynasty, wrote in his two palace poems: "the door locks and curtains hang down, the moon shadows slant; Cuihua is just a short distance away from the end of the world."

Idiom usage

It's difficult to describe. It's hard to see. It's not so close now. It's not so common. Why can't you give up? The twenty second volume of ancient and modern novels by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty